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Skunk's Strategy Not Just Black and White
Hunter wanted to know how predators know a skunk is a skunk. Biologists had assumed that the distinctive black-and-white color scheme was a marker saying, "keep away."Hunter prepared...
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Read moreTags reveal white sharks have neighborhoods in the north Pacific
"White sharks are a large, highly mobile species," said Salvador Jorgensen, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station. "They can go just about anywhere they want ...
Life Sciences | Read moreWolves, moose and biodiversity: An unexpected connection
A large and unexpected one, say wildlife biologists from Michigan Technological University. Joseph Bump, Rolf Peterson and John Vucetich report in the November 2009 issue of the journal Ecology that t...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreResearch Could Boost Coastal Economics with Crustacean Molting on Demand
Soft-shelled blue crabs are a delicacy enjoyed by food lovers each spring and early summer when the crustaceans naturally molt their hard outer shell in the wild. Molting is the process by which the c...
Business and Finance | Read moreFirst evidence for a second breeding season among migratory songbirds
It was known that these species, which migrate at night when there are fewer predators and the stars can guide their journey, breed during their stay in temperate regions of the United States and Cana...
Life Sciences | Read moreMantis shrimps could show us the way to a better DVD
The mantis shrimps in the study are found on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and have the most complex vision systems known to science. They can see in twelve colours (humans see in only three) an...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreHearing on the wing: New structure discovered in butterfly ears
The team believes that the remarkable structure may be associated with the detection of predators, in particular birds. The Blue Morpho butterflies (Morpho peleides), native to Central and South Amer...
Life Sciences | Read moreAncient Flying Pterosaur Also Sailed Seas
However, researchers at Texas Tech University, the University of Kansas and University of Florida have found that the animal’s strange body actually made it a mastery of nature’s drawing boards. Not o...
Earth Sciences | Read moreInt'l Task Force Developing Smart Mgt. Plans for Forage Fish, a Growing Target of Commercial Fishers
The Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force will meet from October 12-14 in Portland, ME to continue developing critical management recommendations for “forage fish,” small prey fish like sardines, anchovies a...
Event News | Read moreHerbivory discovered in a spider
There are approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all of which have been thought to be strict predators that feed on insects or other animals. Now, scientists have found that a small Cen...
Life Sciences | Read moreGenetic Conflict in Fish Led to Evolution of New Sex Chromosomes
In research published in the journal Science (October 1, 2009), Professor Thomas D. Kocher, Department of Biology, College of Chemical and Life Sciences; Reade Roberts, post-doctoral associate; and Je...
Life Sciences | Read moreFruit fly sperm makes females do housework after sex
The surprise discovery was made by Professor Elwyn Isaac from the University of Leeds' Faculty of Biological Sciences when investigating the marked differences in sleeping patterns between virgin...
Life Sciences | Read moreElectric fish plug in to communicate
The fish generate electric fields to navigate, fight and attract mates in murky streams and rivers throughout Central and South America. They do so at night, while trying to avoid predators such as ca...
Life Sciences | Read moreFrog fungus hammering biodiversity of communities
It may also be true of the frogs of Central America, where the pattern of extinctions emerges clearly only at a certain spatial scale. Everyone knows that frogs are in trouble and that some sp...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreUAB Research Team Working to Keep Terrapin Turtle Off Endangered Species List
The Diamondback Terrapin has been a national delicacy, a source of state taxes and a casualty of commercial development and victim of new predators, but now its prospects are improved by a UAB-based t...
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