Credit: Unsplash. Throughout history, the lion has always been a representation of strength, authority, and fierceness. While on WWF tours to Africa, getting the chance to witness this majestic species up close is bound to be an awe-inspiring and exhilarating encounter. Among all large feline species, African lions are the most sociable, and they form groups known...
Credit: Unsplash. A group of zoologists from the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, and Berlin Zoological Garden has uncovered the function of whiskers located on elephant trunks. In their study, which was published in the journal Communications Biology, the team examined elephant trunks...
Polyrhachis femorata collectively playing dead, a first for scientists S. 'Topa' Petit Scientists in Australia have made a groundbreaking discovery involving a defense mechanism seen in the animal kingdom: Playing Dead. However, this particular instance is unlike anything previously documented. Entire ant colonies were observed engaging in a collective behavior of feigning death, marking a remarkable...
Credit: olhar digital. France has reached its record dry spell of 31 days without considerable rains, the country’s climate service stated Tuesday, amid concerns over water reserves partly of Europe still reeling from last year’s severe drought. With rainfall across the country of less than 1 millimeter per day since January 21, the weather service Meteo...
Humans use a vast array of pharmaceuticals to stay healthy—what do those drugs and their breakdown products mean for the health of groundwater ecosystems? Credit: SharonDawn/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Engulfing a pill merely seems to make it disappear. In reality, drugs sooner or later leave your organism and go into waterways, where they can suffer more...
Guided by Dr. Michael Fradley, a group of scientists in the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and also North Africa (EAMENA) project utilized a range of open-source satellite images to carefully study the area around the eastern Nafud desert, an region little researched in the past. The unexpected results, released in the journal...
A new panel report contends that compelling evidence backs a natural origin for the COVID-19 outbreak that first walloped Wuhan, China, in January 2020.HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES The acrimonious disscussion over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic flared up again this week with a report from a specialist panel concluding that SARS-CoV-2 likely spread...
A group of investigators at the College of Agder's, Center for Coastal Study, functioning with an associate at the Institute of Marine Research, both in Norway, has discovered that when secured places for lobsters are developed in overfished parts of the ocean, the lobsters tend to grow greater. In their paper released in Proceedings...
Landmark research shows 'spillover' mechanism for the rare but fatal Hendra viruses. Australian flying foxes host a virus called Hendra, which has spilled over into people and can cause a rare but deadly respiratory infection.Credit: Auscape/Universal Images Group/Getty " Hey, men, could you open your wings and show me?" states Peggy Eby, looking up at a...
The Comeback According to the Guardian, at the peak of the commercial whaling industry, just 1,500 humpback whales were left alive. However, this week, Australian environment minister Sussan Ley announced the removal of the species from the endangered wildlife list. Ley told the independent news channel that removing the humpback from the endangered species list is...
