Tag: Biodiversity

Credit: Ryan McMinds Nov. 27, 2018 Threatened tropical coral reefs form complex, ancient associations with bacteria, researchers say When it ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science recognizes the world's leading researchers TAMPA, Fla. - Eight University of South ...

Efforts to protect the UK's native honey bees could be helped by research that maps their entire genetic make-up. Experts ...

Credit: Brett Baker/University of Texas at Austin. Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin's Marine Science Institute have discovered ...

Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The ancient Maya are not particularly known for their love ...

Credit: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre Increased oil and gas activities could combine with ocean warming and acidification to have a ...

Credit: Ryuichi Hirota, Hiroshima University Hiroshima University (HU) researchers successfully developed a biocontainment strategy for genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. ...

Credit: Michael Fischer World's first cannabis chromosome map reveals the plant's evolutionary past and points to its future as potential ...

Credit: John Rowan Africa harbors the greatest diversity of large-bodied mammals today, though this was not always the case. As ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Corals and the microbes they host evolved together, new research by Oregon State University shows. The findings, ...

Credit: Neil Palmer Headlines about threatened plant species often focus on hardwood plundered from the Amazon or obscure plants known ...

Credit: Robert Rogers, Baylor University WACO, Texas (Nov. 20, 2018) -- In a follow-up to their groundbreaking study, Baylor researchers ...

Credit: Y.F. Gouvêa Armed with long thorns and sticky stems, newly described plant Solanum kollastrum might look like a villain ...

Credit: Lewis Campbell Frogs from groups exposed to a deadly virus are breeding at younger ages, new research suggests. Scientists ...

Credit: Jeff Blanchard Characterizing the diversity of microbial cells in a handful of soil is so complex it was considered ...

Credit: Ron Horii As the IPCC warns that we have only 12 years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly ...

More than a century ago, when botanists and naturalists were in the field collecting plant and animal specimens, they couldn't ...

Credit: Francesco Maria Sabatini / MLU Which plant species grow where, alongside which others - and why? The diversity of ...

Credit: Courtesy Current Biology Helmet-heads of the freshwater fish world, African mormyrid fishes are known for having a brain-to-body size ...

Credit: Chen et al., 2018 The teeth of Changchunsaurus parvus, a small herbivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous of China, represent ...