Nature

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more difficult. But now a team […]

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ocean’s smallest organisms interact.This post was originally published on this site

In the Kenyan savanna, lions and livestock essentially live in shifts: Cattle graze during the day and are enclosed at night when lions are active.This post was originally published on this site

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an environmental issue often evolves into a human problem.This post was originally published on this site

Flinders University paleontology researchers—with local fossil experts—have discovered how prolific shorebirds, including the Plains-wanderer, once lived across South Australia’s South-East during wetter times up to 60,000 years ago.This post was originally published on this site

A study led by a University of Calgary researcher has come up with an AI-based early detection system for river-borne pathogens—including whirling disease in trout and salmon.This post was originally published on this site

Before scientists even knew how many Florida scrub millipedes were left in the wild, a quiet breakthrough happened in a University of South Florida lab. The rare, giant millipedes reproduced in captivity.This post was originally […]

Look down at the rainforest floor. Rotting flowers shift under the assault of tiny petal-eating beetles. Vividly colored fungi pop up everywhere like the strange sculptures of a madly productive ceramicist.This post was originally published […]

For social animals, encounters between rival groups can often lead to conflict. While some species avoid this by maintaining fixed territories, others, like the feral horses, live in a “multilevel society” where multiple family groups […]

Pūkeko use sound elements to create calls and combine them to create complex call sequences in order to expand the range of options for expressing themselves—these are the findings of an international team including Konstanz […]