Nature

Every winter about 10,000 elephant seals make their way to California’s Año Nuevo State Park to fight, mate and give birth. The spectacle runs from mid-December through March, drawing wildlife watchers eager for a glimpse […]

A team of shark researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has solved a long-standing mystery, identifying the first-ever documented mating hub for tiger sharks.This post was originally published on this site

Research from Monash University explores how rising temperatures and growing urban environments can affect behavior in native Australian bees and the European honeybee.This post was originally published on this site

New research has found that roughly half of Australia’s freshwater fish are fond of snacking on animal and plant material, including fruits, from outside their aquatic habitats.This post was originally published on this site

Is that bird feeder in your backyard really helping nature? How about feeding the chipmunks that come to your patio? Or handouts to wildlife in their natural environment, far from human habitation?This post was originally […]

Sharks are the most feared predators in the sea, and their survival hinges on fearsome teeth that regrow throughout their lives. But changes in the ocean’s chemistry could put those weapons at risk.This post was […]

Victoria has just suffered some of its worst bushfires since the Black Summer fires of 2019–20. Over 400,000 hectares are estimated to have burnt so far, an area more than five times larger than Singapore.This […]

The success of restoration efforts hinges on involving local communities. That was the finding of our recent study which explored restoration programs around the world.This post was originally published on this site

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth’s oceans after a global mass extinction.This post […]

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence showing that reducing plant species diversity alters plant chemical signals across whole communities and within individual plants.This […]