Three New Species of Long-Headed Seed Bugs Emerge from Museum Drawers in French Guiana
A new taxonomic study describes three new species of the long-headed seed bug genus Dushinckanus, reveals the previously unknown male ...
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Museum Skins Reveal Hidden Family Tree of the World’s Most Divided Bird
DNA from nearly a century of museum bird skins reveals that the Eurasian Jay comprises at least eight deeply divergent ...
Museum Specimens Solve 50-Year Mystery of Brazil’s Vanishing Frogs
Museum specimens collected before and after the 1970s amphibian die-offs at Brazil's Boracéia Biological Station reveal that the chytrid fungus ...
Hidden alpine lacewing rediscovered in Switzerland after nearly a century
Museum specimens and new field captures have confirmed that the rare alpine brown lacewing Hemerobius schedli, long overlooked among its ...
Short DNA Barcodes Unlock Decades-Old Octocoral Specimens in Japanese Museum Collection
A new mini barcoding approach using octocoral-specific primers successfully recovered DNA from 92.7 percent of decades-old museum specimens at the ...
AI Learns to Read Fish Traits from Century-Old Museum Specimens in Zimbabwe
Researchers trained lightweight YOLO deep-learning models on just 53 smartphone images of preserved Zimbabwean museum fish to detect ecologically important ...
Museum moths lose most of their body weight, and new correction factors can bring it back
A new study quantifies how drying, freezing, and rehydration strip moths of up to 70 percent of their body mass ...
Tiny Rove Beetles Rewritten: One Genus Sunk and Three New Species Unveiled
A new taxonomic revision sinks the Argentine rove beetle genus Leiporaphes into synonymy with Lypeticus, describes three new Neotropical species, ...
Ghost Moth Genus Recorded in Georgia for the First Time, Hidden in Museum Drawers for Decades
The first record of the ghost moth genus Hepialus in Georgia and the South Caucasus comes from museum specimens collected ...
Digital 3D model resurrects the extinct Imperial Woodpecker in stunning detail
Researchers have released an open-access animated 3D model of the extinct Imperial Woodpecker, built from a museum specimen, photogrammetry and ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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