University of Adelaide researchers have made a breakthrough in investigating salt tolerance in plants which could lead to new salt tolerant varieties of crops, and also answer unresolved questions in plant biology.
The researchers, also from the ARC Centre of...
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Pigeons can learn to distinguish real words from non-words by visually processing their letter combinations, surprising new research from the University of Otago in New Zealand and Ruhr University in Germany shows.
The researchers found that pigeons' performance...
"If we could step back in time 8 million years, you'd basically see the same animal crawling around then as you would see today in the Southeast. Even 30 million years ago, they didn't look much different," said Evan...
Dr Christos Ioannou and his colleagues from the School of Biological Sciences tested three-spined sticklebacks (the UK's smallest freshwater fish) alone and in groups of ten.
They found that just like in humans, braver individuals led the groups, and that...
Research by Stanford scholars offers new insight into how climate change will affect reefs. Credit: Flickr/usfwspacific
Understanding what aids or degrades these sensitive ecosystems can help focus conservation efforts on those reefs that are most likely to survive global warming.
While...
A NASA airborne mission designed to transform our understanding of Earth's valuable and ecologically sensitive coral reefs has set up shop in Australia for a two-month investigation of the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest reef ecosystem.
At a media...
A captive Hawaiian crow ('Alal?) using a stick tool to extract food from a wooden log. 'Alal? have relatively straight bills and highly mobile eyes -- morphological features that may aid their handling of bill-held tools.Credit: Copyright Ken Bohn/San...
Humpback whale breaching.Credit: NOAA
In today's oceans, larger-bodied marine animals are more likely to become extinct than smaller creatures, according to a Stanford-led report. It's a pattern that is unprecedented in the history of life on Earth, and one that...
Kendra Chritz sampling hippo enamel by kerosene lamplight in Uganda.Credit: Courtesy of Kendra Chritz
Loss of megaherbivores such as elephants and hippos can allow woody plants and non-grassy herbs and flowering plants to encroach on grasslands in African national parks,...
Still photos depict a single cycle of a bat's head waggle, intended to help it to focus its hearing and zero in on prey.Credit: Johns Hopkins University
"It's an adorable behavior, and I was curious about the purpose," said Melville...
This is a Nubian giraffe in Murchison Falls NP, Uganda.Credit: Julian Fennessy
Up until now, scientists had only recognized a single species of giraffe made up of several subspecies. But, according to the most inclusive genetic analysis of giraffe relationships...
