For the first time, researchers have explored the physiological adaptations that enable different populations of the same species of dolphin to vary in diving ability by almost 1000m. The research, published in two complementary studies in Frontiers in Physiology, compared the lung mechanics and metabolic rates of bottlenose dolphin populations known for their different hunting...
Seeing through the eyes of a crab
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Australia has a new venomous snake — And it may already be threatened
The ink has not yet dried on a scientific paper describing a new species of snake, yet the reptile may already be in danger of extinction due to mining.
A team of biologists led by The University of Queensland's Associate Professor Bryan Fry discovered a new species of bandy-bandy snake at Weipa on the west coast...
Vets celebrate 130 years of historic professional journal
14 July 2018
Vets celebrate 130 years of historic professional journal
14 July 2018
84 highly endangered amur leopards remain in China and Russia
Scientists estimate there are only 84 remaining highly endangered Amur leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis) remaining in the wild across its current range along the southernmost border of Primorskii Province in Russia and Jilin Province of China.
This new estimate of the Amur leopard population was recently reported in the scientific journal, Conservation Letters by scientists from...