New study finds that the nutritional value of prey within a single species can widely vary, offering key insights for food web dynamics and ecosystem change The hunt is on and a predator finally zeroes in on its prey. The animal consumes the nutritious meal and moves on to forage for its next target. But how much prey does a predator need to consume? Following a period of massive starvation among animals living along the California coast, University of California…
Biologists ever since Charles Darwin have noted that when animals colonize an isolated island, after millions of years they may evolve into entirely new…
The project is part of a three-year, £3.6 million research programme looking into how new technologies can help people take a more active interest in their…
The international trade in wildlife is worth millions of dollars annually, and the use of wild species is an imperative for many people, particularly the rural…
The two Norwegian scientists could hardly believe their eyes on a dive on the far west of the coast of Spitzbergen in autumn 2004.Right in front of NTNU…
The findings represent a careful quantitative analysis of what's been called a “jellyfish explosion” after intense fishing in the area in the last few decades….
“The debate falls into two camps,” said C. Page Chamberlain, professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University. “One is that the…
These are the conclusions of numerical modeling experiments by scientists from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. The study will be published 15 July in…
In a policy statement to be published Friday in the journal Science, the scientists say that 32 percent of all amphibian species are threatened and at least…
A new study led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, implicates rising seasonal temperatures and…
That's the startling conclusion drawn by a Johns Hopkins University marine geologist, writing in the July issue of the journal Geology. Postdoctoral fellow…
The Wildlife Conservation Society has launched an ambitious new program that calls for a 50 percent increase in tiger numbers in key areas over the next…
Researchers from the University of the West of England have found the fish trails in rocks that were once a riverbed, but are now in the heart of the Brecon…
In work reported in Physical Review Letters on June 27, physics professor Nigel Goldenfeld and graduate students Pak Yuen Chan and John Veysey present a…
Almost seven times more forested federal land burned during the 1987-2003 period than during the prior 17 years. In addition, large fires occurred about four…
According to the report, which looked at more than four years of WCS field data, the park needs to expand from its current size of under 5,000 square…
The Crown imperial has been known to repel moles from gardens for a long time. This has led the plant to be grown for reasons beyond its pretty flowers and…
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