Home - Environment - Scientists dropped just two brown anole lizards on each of several storm-swept Bahamian islands, and years later their descendants revealed something natural selection alone could not erase In May 2005, scientists released one male and one female brown anole…
To help exemplify the overall phenomenon of flying foxes shrinking, two specimens from the Field Museum's collections. The smaller specimen on the left is from 1995; the larger specimen on the right is from 1948. (Field Museum via SWNS) The world’s biggest…
__ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, Tenn. __– A small visitor with an outsized reputation has made its presence known at Arnold Air Force Base, headquarters of Arnold Engineering Development Complex. Arnold AFB researchers have documented two new bat species on the installation for…
The world’s biggest bats are shrinking, reveals new research. Flying fox fruit bats are getting smaller — and it may be down to human hunters, according to the study. Comparisons of the bats with five-foot-wingspans collected over time in Madagascar suggest…
Madagascan flying foxes, easy targets for hunters, have shrunk since the 1980s Malagasy flying foxes (Pteropus rufus) (shown) have skulls that are 6 percent smaller than they were prior to the 1980s. Large-scale hunting by humans may be the reason. These big bats…
During Japan’s rainy season and again in autumn, mushrooms often sprout on park lawns and sports fields. Scientists who study mushrooms, though, have paid far more attention to the fungi of forests. When researchers surveyed lawns in Japan, they found…
This article reviews conservation measures taken in recent decade to protect waterbirds in China's coastal wetlands and provides recommendations for future conservation action from three aspects: policy and administration, habitat conservation and management, and multiparty participation. Advancing Coastal Waterbird Conservation…
Patricia Zurita is CEO of BirdLife International, a leading conservation organization that works with 115 national partner organizations and 13 million members to protect birds and their habitats worldwide. In an interview marking BirdLife’s 100th anniversary, she shared her vision for how the…
Researchers redescribed the killer whale amphipod Orcinocyamus orcini from a stranded orca in East Java and produced the species' first COI DNA sequences. Scientists have redescribed Orcinocyamus orcini, a tiny whale-louse amphipod found only on killer whales, using specimens collected…
Guwahati, Oct 29 (PTI) A new gecko species has been discovered in Assam’s Dima Hasao district by Mizoram University researchers, state Forest and Climate Change Minister Jayanta Malla Baruah said on Thursday. In a social media post, he said that the…
Research on how animals live, behave, think and communicate, from mammals and birds to reptiles, amphibians and fish, and the new species scientists describe.
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