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...
Rats trail behind shrews, monkeys, and humans in visual problem solving
Society for Neuroscience. "Rats trail behind shrews, monkeys, and humans in visual problem solving: Work could have important implications for translational research." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 12 July 2018. .
Society for Neuroscience. (2018, July 12). Rats trail behind shrews, monkeys, and humans in visual problem solving: Work could have important implications for translational...
Fuzzy yellow bats reveal evolutionary relationships in Kenya
After Halloween, people tend to forget about bats. But, for farmers, residents of Kenya, and scientists, bats are a part of everyday life. While North America has 44 species, Kenya, a country the size of Texas, has 110 bat species. Many of these species also contain subspecies and further divisions that can make the bat...
Antioxidant benefits of sleep
Understanding sleep has become increasingly important in modern society, where chronic loss of sleep has become rampant and pervasive. As evidence mounts for a correlation between lack of sleep and negative health effects, the core function of sleep remains a mystery. But in a new study publishing 12 July in the open access journal PLOS...
Who got bit? By mailing in 16,000 ticks, citizen scientists help track disease exposures
A bite from a disease-carrying tick can transmit a serious, potentially fatal infection, such as Lyme disease. But many ticks go unnoticed and unreported.
Now, with the help of citizen scientists, ecologists at Colorado State University and Northern Arizona University are offering better insight into people's and animals' potential exposure to tick-borne diseases -- not just...