Phys.org – Ecology

An area of the remote Southern Ocean that’s long confused ocean color satellites by reflecting large amounts of turquoise-colored light appears to be full of silica-rich diatoms, according to a new study. Surprisingly, there is […]

Toddlers can name a few animals. Older kids group animals into categories (birds, fish). And teenagers can sketch a rough tree of life. But when 16 grown-up biologists—five of them affiliated with the Smithsonian Tropical […]

While analyzing the mountains of data harvested from three decades of butterfly counting in the Midwest, a Michigan State University Ph.D. candidate had seen enough studies to be braced for bad news.This post was originally […]

University of Florida biologists studying fungal evolution and ecology have discovered three new truffle species, including one capable of commanding hundreds of dollars per pound within culinary circles.This post was originally published on this site

A fossilized tooth recovered from the Galería site in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain) confirms that reindeer (Rangifer) inhabited this area of the Iberian Peninsula between 243,000 and 300,000 years ago. It represents one […]