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Gathering genetic material from treetops in tropical rainforests would be a near-impossible task to perform safely by hand. That’s why scientists have developed a system that allows a drone to do the job, without even touching the trees itself.Continue… Continue reading Drone-dangled probe gathers DNA from treetops so we don’t have to
Gathering genetic material from treetops in tropical rainforests would be a near-impossible task to perform safely by hand. That’s why scientists have developed a system that allows a drone to do the job, without even touching the trees itself.Continue… Continue reading Drone-dangled probe gathers DNA from treetops so we don’t have to
Gathering genetic material from treetops in tropical rainforests would be a near-impossible task to perform safely by hand. That’s why scientists have developed a system that allows a drone to do the job, without even touching the trees itself.Continue… Continue reading Drone-dangled probe gathers DNA from treetops so we don’t have to
This stunning image of a bearded dragon (Pogona barbata) soaking up the rays in the Australian capital of Canberra has taken out the overall prize in the 2024 British Ecology Society’s photography competition, an annual contest open to any nature snapp… Continue reading Dragons and nature battles: The 2024 Capturing Ecology photography awards
To the extent that one has strong feelings about insects, they tend toward the extremes of a spectrum that runs from a complete fascination with their diversity and the specializations …read more Continue reading Mothbox Watches Bugs, So You — Or Your Grad Students — Don’t Have To
Seeing a wombat in the wild in Australia is not a rare experience, but when ecologists managed to capture this particular one emerging from a den and casually wandering past a motion-sensor camera in the middle of the night, there was serious cause for… Continue reading Watch: Ultra-rare baby wombat surprises all with shock photo shoot
Now in its eighth year, the Beaker Street Festival’s Science Photography Prize tells the story of one of the more remote places on Earth, Australia’s southern island state of Tasmania, and the 12 finalists for 2024 have captured the beauty and diversit… Continue reading Gallery: Rare glimpses of nature from the ‘Apple Isle’
If a giant prehistoric salmon isn’t scary enough for you, how about one with warthog-like tusks? According to a new study, Oncorhynchus rastrosus possessed just such appendages – even though the fish likely fed on tiny plankton.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Monstrous prehistoric salmon had “tusks like a warthog”
Scientists have discovered that audio recordings of healthy coral reefs may help attract free-swimming coral larvae to damaged ones. The finding could be a major step toward preserving the world’s coral reefs, an estimated 25% of which have died out in… Continue reading Sounds appealing – reef recordings entice coral larvae to start building
Although the humble sea cucumber may not look like much, it could soon be recruited to help save the world’s coral reefs. The bottom-dwelling animals have been found to play a vital role in protecting corals from harmful bacteria.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading The secret to saving our reefs may lie in the sea cucumber