Ecology & Zoology

Last decade, science faced an ecological puzzle: under hotter, drier conditions of global warming, forests should have been penalized but instead the rainforests thrived. It isn't the first time- the climate change that caused the death of the dinosa ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2014 - 9:31am

Nemo Finding Home- The Epic Journey Of Clownfish

New research has found clownfish larvae can swim up to 400 kilometers in search of a home, which makes them better able to cope with environmental change. Clownfish spend their entire adult lives under the protection of their host anemone but as babies th ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2014 - 4:01pm

Tropical Fish Devastate Mediterranean Ecosystems

Tropical rabbitfish have devastated algal forests in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and pose a major threat to the entire Mediterranean basin if their distribution continues to expand as the climate warms, according to a new study in the Journal of Ecology ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2014 - 1:30pm

Antifreeze Proteins: Why Antarctic Fish Don't Freeze Or Melt

Five families of notothenioid fish inhabit the Southern Ocean, the frigid sea that encircles Antarctica, manufacture their own "antifreeze" proteins to survive. Their ability to live in the icy seawater is so extraordinary that they make up more ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2014 - 3:14pm

Sheep HapMap Project Can Tell Us About Livestock Climate Adaptation

Man has domesticated animals for almost long as man has domesticated crops. In both cases, humans have engaged in genetic modification, selecting the best traits possible. Because of that legacy, livestock such as sheep offer an intriguing way to examine ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2014 - 5:56pm

The Grim Story Of The Snowy Mountains' Cannibal Horses

A glimpse of wild brumbies in the Snowy Mountains. Credit: Michael Tristram/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Don Driscoll, Australian National University and Sam Banks, Australian National University ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 24 2014 - 1:00am

Indonesia Cassava Might Be Saved By Parasitic Wasp

Researchers in Indonesia are releasing the parasitic wasp Anagyrus lopezi in an attempt to save cassava crops from destructive mealybugs. Credit: CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture.Rights information: http://bit.ly/otwhKG By: Ker Than, Ins ...

Article - Inside Science - Sep 26 2014 - 7:30am

Fish Harvests: Natural Processes Cause Dramatic Drops In Populations- So Do Humans

Ryan Rykaczewski, an oceanographer and assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, is part of a team that are looking deep into the ocean's past, and they have shown that natural processes can cause dramatic year-to-year drops in fish po ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2014 - 1:43pm

Andinobates Geminisae: New Poison Dart Frog Species Discovered In Panama

A bright orange poison dart frog with a unique call was discovered in Donoso, Panama, and described by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí in Panama, and the Universidad de los Andes in Col ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2014 - 10:31am

Wind Turbine Or Tree? Bats Can't Tell

Certain bats may be approaching wind turbines after mistaking them for trees, according to a study, and that could be leading to disaster. Propped up by government mandates and subsidies, both solar and wind energy have become more common and thus both hav ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2014 - 6:00pm