After three years of declines, shark bites are again on the rise
After three consecutive years of worldwide declines, the number of shark bites picked up in 2021, with a total of…
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Earth BioGenome Project enters new phase
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a global effort to map the genomes of all 1.8 million known species of plants,…
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Clear as mud: The origins of early pottery in the Lucayan Islands
In our last “Talking Taino” we described a variety of ways that meals were prepared without clay pots. The invention…
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Map of transparent butterflies highlights biodiversity hotspot in the Andes Mountains
With over a million known species, insects are by far the most diverse group of organisms on Earth, with conservative…
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Early bloomers: Using citizen-science data to investigate unseasonal flowering in Joshua trees
In November 2019, visitors to Joshua Tree National Park in California encountered a strange sight. Joshua trees and closely related…
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More than half of educators at museums, zoos and science centers weighing career change
With the full onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, museums faced the dilemma of having to maintain outreach…
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iMuseum: The difficulty with distance learning during a pandemic
In February 2020, researchers undertook a broad study of how museums used distance learning in their education programs, not anticipating…
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Underbite regained: Species feared extinct is the only frog with true teeth on its lower jaw
In a new study, biologists laid to rest a century-old debate by confirming that a single species of frog, out…
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Not a pot to ‘cook’ in
Irving Rouse, the doyen of Caribbean archaeology, once estimated that pottery comprised 90% of all artifacts found in the region….
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Who observes the observers? Scientists conduct large-scale study of iNaturalist users
Scientists analyzed more than 31 million iNaturalist records in a new study to find out who most often uses the…
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