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Controlled Burns Endanger The Survival Of Skinks and Other Wildlife

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As Australia and the world face the challenges of global warming and rising bushfire threats, ecologists at the University of South Australia are focusing on how prescribed burns affect native wildlife. In a recent study published in the International Journal of Wildland Fire, researchers examined the peak temperatures lizards may encounter during prescribed (controlled) burns […]

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Sauropod’s Last Meal Sheds Light on Eating Habits

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Since the late 1800s, sauropod dinosaurs—like Brontosaurus and Brachiosaurus—have been widely accepted as plant-eaters. Yet until recently, no direct evidence, such as fossilized stomach contents, had confirmed this. A Rare Glimpse Into a Sauropod’s Diet I was part of a paleontology team working in outback Queensland, Australia, where we discovered “Judy,” an extraordinary sauropod fossil

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Males To Blame: Only 1.4% Of Female Frog Calls Are Known

Ecology, Plants & Animals /

Much like in other species—no blame intended—male frogs dominate the soundscape with their loud calls, actively drowning out the quieter voices of females, whose vocalizations we’ve identified in only 1.4% of cases. Surprisingly, new research from Brazil’s Universidade de São Paulo reveals that scientists have documented the calls of only a tiny fraction of female

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Giant Megalodon’s Prey Finally Revealed — And It’s Not What We Thought

Biology, Plants & Animals, Science /

The massive Megalodon, one of the greatest predators of the Neogene period, ruled the oceans for about 20 million years before vanishing. During that time, it fed on virtually any marine creature large enough to become a meal. New Evidence Challenges Old Assumptions That’s the conclusion of a new study that analyzed fossilized Megalodon teeth

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Ferns Could Potentially Return To An Earlier, More Basic Form

Ecology, Plants & Animals /

Most people are familiar with Rudolph Zallinger’s illustration “The March of Progress” which depicts human evolution from the early primate ancestor Dryopithecus to modern Homo sapiens. While evolution is a captivating process, it doesn’t always move in a straight line as Zallinger’s image suggests. The notion that evolution progresses in a one-way path from simple

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Reptile Fossil Tracks Trigger New Evolutionary Insights

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The appearance of four-limbed animals, or tetrapods, marked a crucial milestone in the evolutionary path of numerous modern species, including humans. Our latest study in Nature, reveals ancient fossil footprints from Australia that challenge the established timeline of early tetrapod evolution. The findings also indicate that significant chapters of this evolutionary story may have unfolded on

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Orcas Use a Deadly Strategy to Hunt the Ocean’s Largest Fish

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When donning salmon hats and harassing yachts, orcas may seem playful, but they remain the ocean’s top predators. A sobering example of their prowess comes from the Gulf of California, where a pod of orcas, including a male named Moctezuma, has developed sophisticated hunting techniques to target whale sharks—the ocean’s largest fish. Orcas Showcase Adaptive

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Chimpanzees use Rapid Gestures, Much Like Human Conversations

Biology, Plants & Animals, Science /

When people converse, they quickly take turns speaking and sometimes interrupt each other. Researchers who have compiled the largest dataset of chimpanzee “conversations” have discovered that chimps also communicate using gestures in a similarly rapid manner. These findings, reported on July 22 in Current Biology, reveal that chimpanzees follow a rapid-fire pattern similar to human

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Study Shows Elephants use Names for each Other, Like Humans

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Researchers at Colorado State University have found that elephants respond to being called by name, using name-like calls to address each other. This behavior, observed in wild African elephants, represents a unique ability among nonhuman animals, according to a new study in Nature Ecology and Evolution. Researchers from CSU, Save the Elephants, and ElephantVoices confirmed

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