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Freshly emerged from their chrysalises, adult monarch butterflies sip nectar from the flowers of showy milkweed. As a child, Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón wondered where monarch butterflies stop for a meal and a night’s rest on their long migrations across North America. Now she and other scientists are attaching tiny tracking devices…
ST. JOHN’S – Scientists, academics, friends and family gathered on Sunday to honour the life of world-renowned seabird biologist William Montevecchi, who died earlier this year at the age of 80. Montevecchi was professor at…
Indonesia is battling one of its most severe wildfire seasons in over a decade. Scientists who studied the devastating fires in 2015 explain what the current crisis could mean for orangutans image: A bornean orangutan at the…
Are you an avid bird watcher wanting to know how to identify more birds? Or maybe you love seeing the flying creatures in your daily life and want to know what they’re called. Either way, you’ve come to the right place. There are many birds with white heads that exist…
Tropical ecosystems are famous for their teeming, exuberant diversity. In fact, the dramatic increase in biodiversity from the poles to the tropics — known as the latitudinal diversity gradient — is pervasive across branches of…
Utility Workers Rescue Great Horned Owl Trapped By Power Lines Inside Edition Utility Workers Rescue Great Horned Owl Trapped By Power Lines Workers with Bear Valley Electric Service had an unusual service call when they were…
The newest addition to Robert Bird and Jane Howe’s backyard is more than an intricate artwork. It’s a sculpture that symbolises a dying species “rising from the ashes”. On Saturday, October 17, a sculpture of a regent honeyeater…
Column By Mike Bibb I fumbled Anthropology 101 and similar courses on human evolution, but I noticed that not everyone seems to have evolved at the same pace. If we’re told the universe started out exploding like a Big Bang Cherry Bomb, composed of dirt, rocks, cosmic dust, and other…
Giant sea spiders off southeastern Australia have an unusual feature to match their impressive size: glowing legs that can measure 9.8 inches (25 centimeters) long. A 2017 survey of an Australian deep-sea trench brought Jérôme…
For many of us at Murdoch University, bandicoots are surprisingly familiar neighbours. Quenda, the south-western subspecies of the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon fusciventer), are regularly seen around campus, scurrying…
For communities living around Kenya’s famous Amboseli ecosystem — a vast wildlife landscape in the country’s south near the border with Tanzania — elephants are both a source of pride and a growing challenge. The deaths of 18 elephants between late June and August in the Amboseli ecosystem, and the…
A group of Manatee County residents have been asking commissioners to make good on what they call a 2019 promise to build a brick-and-mortar animal shelter. The shelter was planned for East County off State Road 64, but the plan…