Tag: biology
Giant sea bass are thriving in Mexican waters – scientific research...
Arturo Ramírez-Valdez, University of California San Diego
I was looking at the seafloor, focused on identifying fish species as...
Trees are dying of thirst in the Western drought – here’s...
Daniel Johnson, University of Georgia and Raquel Partelli Feltrin, University of British Columbia
Like humans, trees need water to...
Smelling in stereo – the real reason snakes have flicking, forked...
Kurt Schwenk, University of Connecticut
As dinosaurs lumbered through the humid cycad forests of ancient South America 180 million...
A volcanic eruption 39 million years ago buried a forest in...
Deborah Woodcock, Clark University and Herb Meyer, National Park Service
In the hills outside the small village of Sexi,...
Lab–grown embryos and human–monkey hybrids: Medical marvels or ethical missteps?
Sahotra Sarkar, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New...
January warm spells, March freezes: How plants manage the shift from...
Richard B. Primack, Boston University
Weather patterns across the U.S. have felt like a roller coaster ride for the...
Figs show that nonnative species can invade ecosystems by forming unexpected...
Jared Bernard, University of Hawaii
While surveying the Hawaiian island of Kauai in search of invasive plants in 2017, botanist Kelsey Brock spotted something unusal:...
Virgin births from parthenogenesis: How females from some species can reproduce...
Mercedes Burns, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
An Asian water dragon hatched from an egg at the Smithsonian National Zoo, and her keepers were shocked....
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
