Wild Geese in China Are ‘Prisoners’ in Their Own Wetlands
In many places in the world, goose populations are booming as the birds have moved out of their wetland habitats to exploit an abundance...
Genomes Reveal Cause of Disease in Rare Cats
Researchers have used whole genome sequencing to identify DNA abnormalities that cause genetic diseases in cats, such as progressive retinal atrophy and Niemann-Pick type...
Top 10 New Species for 2017
A spider and an ant whose names are drawn from references in popular modern-day literature, a brilliant pink katydid and an omnivorous rat are...
Plants call 911 to help their neighbors
Injured plants send off chemical signals to warn neighbors of danger
When Harsh Bais, a botanist at the University of Delaware, emailed Connor Sweeney to...
American chestnut rescue will succeed, but slower than expected
The nearly century-old effort to employ selective breeding to rescue the American chestnut, which has been rendered functionally extinct by an introduced disease --...
New Zealand’s mainland yellow-eyed penguins face extinction
Iconic Yellow-eyed penguins could disappear from New Zealand's Otago Peninsula by 2060, latest research warns. Researchers call for coordinated conservation action.
In a newly published...
Unborn rays traumatized when their mothers are captured
The stress of unintentional fishing capture has a detrimental impact not only on pregnant rays, but also their unborn offspring, research that is the...
Galveston scientists discover new shellfish species in saltwater caves
An international team consisting of scientists from Texas A&M University at Galveston, Denmark, Norway and Mexico have discovered a new species of remipede, a...
Birds choose their neighbors based on personality
Birds of a feather nest together, according to a new study which has found that male great tits (Parus major) choose neighbors with similar...
Black bears are booming in New York
The black bear population in southern New York has grown and expanded its range since the early 1990s, which has led to increased encounters...