Sure invasive, non-native species can disrupt lakes to the purpose of speedy ecosystem collapse, contaminating water for consuming, aquaculture and recreation, a brand new examine has discovered.

They've famously survived the vacuum of area, and even returned to life after being frozen for many years in Antarctic moss. However as laborious as it's to kill the weird microscopic animal, the tardigrade, it is more durable to seek out one fossilized. In reality, solely two have ever been ...

Palaeontologists have uncovered the stays of an enormous new fossil species, an estimated size of half a meter, belonging to an extinct animal group, within the half-a-billion-year-old Cambrian rocks from Kootenay Nationwide Park in Canada.

As any mum or dad is aware of, toddlers are bundles of vitality. Now, the primary complete research of vitality use over the human life span has quantified their burn charge: Infants between the ages of 9 and 15 months expend a surprising 50% extra vitality in 1 day than ...

New analysis has discovered that two kinds of weevils, widespread but invasive beetles in lots of elements of the world, have been utilizing epigenetic adjustments to adapt and reply to totally different toxins within the crops they eat. The findings have implications for the way we think about asexual invaders ...

An environmental sciences professors clarify why naming new species could also be a unending journey.

Cyanobacteria first advanced to carry out photosynthesis about 2.four billion years in the past, pumping tons of oxygen into the environment - a interval often called the Nice Oxygenation Occasion - which enabled the evolution of multicellular life kinds. Researchers have found a brand new species of cyanobacteria, Anthocerotibacter panamensis, ...

Clavelina oblonga, an invasive marine fouling species, not solely reduces variety in communities it invades, it additionally interferes of their restoration following pure disasters - a course of often called 'succession.'

An 18.5 million-year-old fossil present in Panama gives proof of a brand new species and is the oldest dependable instance of a climbing woody vine often called a liana from the soapberry household. The invention sheds mild on the evolution of climbing vegetation.

Scientists from all over the world have produced a brand new evaluation -- believed to be probably the most detailed research of specialised ecological information from international forests -- that's furthering science's understanding of species interactions and the way range contributes to the preservation of ecosystem well being.