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Ecosystems, adaptation, biodiversity loss, and conservation genetics.
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Snails Carry a Surprising Record of Extreme Weather on Their Backs
17+ hour, 52+ min ago (221+ words) The rhythms of prehistoric cyclones and other extreme weather events could be mapped using the shell on a land snail's back, according to new research led by a team at the University of Queensland in Australia....
Swedish Migration Reshaped Medieval Finland???s Genetic Landscape, Study Finds
23+ hour, 52+ min ago (544+ words) A new ancient DNA study reveals that coastal and inland communities in southwestern Finland were genetically similar during the early Middle Ages, before migration from Sweden transformed the coastal population. The research also shows that medieval Finland was deeply connected…...
Modern humans are the evolutionary product of different ancestral populations
3+ hour, 33+ min ago (201+ words) Most recently, an article in the scientific journal Nature (“Who were the Denisovans? Rich trove of fossils and tools paints new picture” Dyani Lewis, September 9, 2026) adds important new knowledge about their culture and geographic distribution. Furthermore, it was discovered that:…...
Massive Apple Tree Image Dataset Aims to Teach AI How Orchards Grow
11+ min ago (534+ words) A team of European researchers has unveiled one of the most extensive annotated image collections ever assembled for apple tree phenology, offering the artificial intelligence community a rigorously curated resource for teaching computers to read the life cycle of an…...
New satellite-based index tracks multiple grassland ecosystem services at
20+ min ago (76+ words) Grasslands cover roughly forty percent of the planet’s land surface, yet scientists have long struggled to keep tabs on the many services they quietly deliver: forage for livestock, storage of soil carbon, regulation of water and air quality, control of…...
Mass extinction: our fossil study reveals which types of species are most at risk from climate change
1+ week, 5+ day ago (659+ words) Many experts believe we may soon face a mass extinction event, with a high proportion of Earth’s species dying out. Projections indicate the climate will continue to change for centuries to come, and this is a significant threat to biodiversity…...
Grey squirrels with a rival nearby dug a hole, mimed burying a nut, covered it over and walked off still holding the nut. The fake burials became much more common when other squirrels were close, apparently creating decoy caches for would-be thieves
7+ hour, 37+ min ago (614+ words) Somewhere in a Pennsylvania woodlot, a squirrel is committing fraud. It scrapes out a hole, shoves its face into the dirt, pats the soil back down and trots off looking pleased with itself. Published September 21, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere in…...
Antarctica’s Blood Falls isn’t coloured by blood or algae. Dissolved iron in ancient brine beneath Taylor Glacier oxidises at the surface, forming iron-rich nanospheres that stain the ice rust-red.
8+ hour, 22+ min ago (1587+ words) Microscopy of Blood Falls deposits revealed amorphous iron-rich nanospheres formed as dissolved iron in ancient subglacial brine oxidizes at Antarctica's surface. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 21, 2026 · How we edit Blood Falls looks like a wound…...
AP CM Bats For Green, Regenerative Urban Growth
10+ hour, 51+ min ago (410+ words) VIJAYAWADA: Development must take place in harmony with nature and the needs of future generations must be met without compromising the environment, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said on Sunday. Speaking at the inauguration of the Earth Centre at Whitefield in…...
Dutch men went from averaging about 5 feet 5 inches in the mid-1800s to nearly 6 feet today, gaining almost 8 inches in roughly 150 years, but researchers found natural selection may explain less than 2% of that extraordinary national growth spurt
12+ hour, 4+ min ago (748+ words) Home - Science - Dutch men went from averaging about 5 feet 5 inches in the mid-1800s to nearly 6 feet today, gaining almost 8 inches in roughly 150 years, but researchers found natural selection may explain less than 2% of that extraordinary national growth spurt How does a…...