2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (252+ words) Activity Database on Education and Research Researchers originally assigned the three Ajimu specimens to the genus Andrias, which includes the world's largest living amphibians, but at the time, a lack of comparative specimens and research prevented their precise taxonomic identification....

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (240+ words) They cross oceans, glide on monsoon winds, and can appear in new places after thousands of kilometres in the air. Now a new study from Lund University shows that dragonflies are among nature's most extreme migrants - and that their journeys…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (180+ words) five Przewalski's horses - one stallion and four mares - from breeding facilities across Europe took their first steps into the wild on the vast plains of the Altyn Dala region in central Kazakhstan. Data from satellite collars offers insights into how…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (128+ words) The research, led by Luis F. Camacho and Miguel B. Araújo is published in Frontiers of Biogeography, the journal of the International Biogeography Society. This study tackles that limitation head-on. By combining large global datasets of abundance and distributions of species, the…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (284+ words) The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two major groups of living land vertebrates—amniotes and lissamphibians—which occupy markedly different ecological niches. Key hypotheses of vertebrate terrestrialization propose…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (616+ words) Final necropsy results for a deceased Māui or Hector's dolphin that washed up on a remote Port Waikato coastline could not determine the cause of death. The juvenile dolphin was reported to DOC by a member of the public on…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (367+ words) Mirage News Sustain Penn State will welcome forester and author Ethan Tapper on March 23 and 24 for a series of events exploring the intersection of ecology, land stewardship and storytelling. Tapper, author of the bestselling book "How to Love a Forest,…...

6+ mon, 2+ day ago   (582+ words) Mirage News Birds that live and breed in vegetated coastal areas, such as dunes and small islands, not only build nests but also – unintentionally – shape their own surroundings. This was discovered by Utrecht-based earth scientist Floris van Rees. He studied…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (217+ words) The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) is a Global South driven initiative to finance the conservation of tropical and subtropical moist forests. Proposed in Dubai at COP28, the Facility is expected to launch at COP30 in Brazil. Initial versions of the TFFF…...