[ad_1] You may not normally think about the smell of corals or how the smell changes during heat stress. However, this is what researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), the University of Sydney and Southern Cross University set out to investigate on the Great Barrier Reef. Each organism …
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[ad_1] In Nevada’s arid Ivanpah Valley, just southeast of Las Vegas, a massive unintended animal conservation experiment has revealed an unexpected result. From 1997 to 2014, the US Fish and Wildlife Service moved more than 9,100 Mojave Desert turtles to the 100-square-kilometer (approximately 39 square miles) large-scale translocation site. The …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: Paleontologist Tom Cullen cuts the T. rex femur in SUE to find out how T. rex grew. View More Credit: © David Evans Tyrannosaurus Rex it was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs of all time: it measured up to 42 feet in length from snout to tail …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: A young Tasmanian devil. Tasmanian devils are threatened by devil 1 face tumor (DFT1), a transmissible cancer. View More Credit: Maximilian Stammnitz A transmissible cancer in the Tasmanian devil has evolved over the past two decades, with some lineages spreading and replacing others, according to a new study …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: The wrinkled-faced Centurio senex bat males display a hairy crease that can be pulled up to cover the lower half of the face like a mask. View More Credit: Marco Tschapka Wrinkled-faced bats not only have the most twisted faces of any bat species, the males also have …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: A night vision camera trap captured this image of mountain lions drinking from a stream in Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. View More Credit: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve When the wolves returned to Yellowstone in 1995, no one imagined that predators would literally change the course of rivers …
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[ad_1] GAINESVILLE, Florida — Fossils of bizarre armored amphibians known as albanerpetontids provide the earliest evidence of a slingshot-style language, new Science study shows. Despite having lizard-like claws, scales and tails, albanerpetontids – mercifully called “albies” for short – were amphibians, not reptiles. Their lineage was different from today’s frogs, …
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