[unable to retrieve full-text content]A researcher finds that a small songbird, the Japanese tit (Parus minor), can retrieve a visual image of a predator from specific alarm calls....
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Mammals and birds could have best shot at surviving climate change
[unable to retrieve full-text content]New research that analyzed more than 270 million years of data on animals shows that mammals and birds – both warm-blooded animals – may have a better chance of evolving and adapting to the Earth's rapidly changing climate than their cold-blooded peers, reptiles and amphibians....
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New Egyptian dinosaur reveals ancient link between Africa and Europe
[unable to retrieve full-text content]When it comes to the final days of the dinosaurs, Africa is something of a blank page. Fossils found in Africa from the Late Cretaceous, the time period from 100 to 66 million years ago, are few and far between. That means that the course of dinosaur evolution in Africa has...
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Entomologist discovers millipede that comes in more color combinations than any other
The new millipede that Paul Marek discovered is as pretty as it is dangerous.
The thumb-sized millipede that crawls around the forest floor of Southwest Virginia's Cumberland Mountains has more color combinations than any other millipede discovered.
Apheloria polychroma, as the millipede is known, also has an enviable trait in the animal world -- it's covered in...
Botulinum-type toxins jump to a new kind of bacteria
Enterococci are hardy microbes that thrive in the gastrointestinal tracts of nearly all land animals, including our own, and generally cause no harm. But their ruggedness has lately made them leading causes of multi-drug-resistant infections, especially in settings like hospitals where antibiotic use disrupts the natural balance of intestinal microbes.
So the discovery of a new...
Humans take up too much space — and it's affecting how mammals move
Human beings take up a lot of real estate -- around 50-70 percent of the Earth's land surface. And our increasing footprint affects how mammals of all sizes, from all over the planet, move.
A study recently published by Science found that, on average, mammals living in human-modified habitats move two to three times less far...