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How we found a new transmissible cancer in bullhead catfish
3+ week, 3+ day ago (822+ words) disease emerged. When my colleagues and I at the University of Vermont turned to whole-genome sequencing,...Vermont Fish and Wildlife scientists contacted the University of Vermont, where I am a genomics and data scientist...
Using a radar satellite to track emperor penguins in winter is changing our understanding of the species
1+ week, 3+ day ago (598+ words) Freely available satellite radar imaging is being used for the first time to help track colonies of endangered emperor penguins in Antarctica throughout the winter months. Typically satellite images need sunlight to be useful, and Antarctica is dark in the…...
New fossils show Tasmanian devils lived with people in outback Western Australia 45,000 years ago
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (573+ words) Despite their name, Tasmanian devils could be found across mainland Australia thousands of years ago....
Fish DNA in Ozark streams reveals region’s complex geologic history
2+ week, 5+ day ago (578+ words) My students and I encountered a mystery. We were partnering with the Missouri Department of Conservation to monitor for fish presence and abundance in the Missouri Ozarks. We visited half a dozen rivers and streams across the region and collected…...
Listening to the bush: How AI can help NZ rid its wildnerness of ‘hold-out’ pest possums
2+ week, 6+ day ago (835+ words) Possums are among New Zealand’s most destructive introduced mammals. They damage native forests, prey on wildlife and remain a major target of the country’s Predator Free 2050 programme. But removing most possums from an area through predator control is only part…...
Satellite images show how penguins’ diets are changing in response to Antarctic climate change
1+ week, 2+ day ago (696+ words) The color of penguin poop, as seen from space, is offering a new window into how the ecology and the environment of Antarctica are changing over time. Adélie penguins are one of the most abundant predators in the Southern Ocean....
The bloodsucking insect with a saw for a mouth: how the tsetse fly bites through almost anything
3+ week, 3+ day ago (747+ words) Tsetse flies transmit some of Africa’s most persistent parasitic diseases. They have affected human health, livestock production and rural development for generations, across a region spanning millions of square kilometres in 37 sub-Saharan countries. Human African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is…...
Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (657+ words) Squinting through my binoculars, I scanned the dense branches of a black spruce, trying my best to catch a glimpse of the thin legs of a small black, white and yellow songbird. I was on the hunt for a yellow-rumped…...
Dog parks are an antidote to the isolation and divisions that social media can fuel
1+ week, 1+ day ago (437+ words) The people who stretch a person’s sense of humanity may be the ones no algorithm currently selects....
A court will decide the future of Yuraygir’s feral horses. That matters for native plants and animals
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (808+ words) From poems to films and books of history, horses feature widely in Australian popular culture. Feral horses, also known as brumbies, are descendants of domesticated horses that now live and breed independently in the wild. For some people, these horses…...