Brown and a white snowshoe hares on snow at a UM research facility. (L.S. Mills research photo by Jaco and Lindsey Barnard)
MISSOULA - As winters arrive later and snow melts earlier, the worldwide decrease in snow cover already may have dramatic impacts on animals that change coat colors with the seasons. An international
On December 4, 1920, a 14-year-old boy saw something extraordinary while walking in the central Wisconsin woods. Snowshoe hares, all of them with vibrant white fur, “were...
The Atlantic 2018-02-15As winters arrive later and snow melts earlier, the worldwide decrease in snow cover already may have dramatic impacts on animals that change coat colors with the seasons....
Science Daily 2018-02-15The deadly devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) affecting Tasmanian devils has triggered evolutionary responses in the species which may help them to coexist with the cancer,...
Public Technologies 2018-02-15Audio Player The very rare animals that reproduce asexually - only about one in 1,000 of all living vertebrate species - are thought to be at an evolutionary disadvantage...
Public Technologies 2018-02-12What happens when six graduate students in different fields, who happen to be friends, put their heads together on an emerging issue in climate change? They get published...
Public Technologies 2018-02-12An Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa, an asexual fish species native to Texas that is entirely female. (Dr. Manfred Schartl) By Shana Hutchins, Texas A&M University College of...
Public Technologies 2018-02-12
An Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa, an asexual fish species native to Texas that is entirely female. (Dr. Manfred Schartl) By Shana Hutchins, Texas A&M University College of Science The Amazon molly has flourished by defying nature's odds to reproduce asexually, cloning themselves by duping the male fish of another species to waste their germplasm Females steal the entire genome...
Public Technologies 2018-02-12Each September, 12-year-old "Julia" flies 4,200 miles from her home in northern Alaska to spend winters in Annapolis, Maryland. Traveling in a "V" formation, she and her migrating companions take several months to make the cross-country journey - stopping at waterways along the route to rest and eat. By December, they join hundreds of other tundra swans, who feed on aquatic...
Independent Tribune 2018-02-12An indigo-colored male peacock and his comparatively drab mate, the peahen. Wikimedia Commons Charles Darwin’s voyage aboard the HMS Beagle was something like a spiritual bachelor party. Before he settled down in a life serving God as a country parson (the caretaker of a church and its congregation), the young naturalist wanted to see the world. At 22 years old, Darwin had an...
Popular Science 2018-02-12You don't have to own hiking boots or a fishing pole, or have a degree in environmental science to help wildlife. A click of your mouse or a stroke of your pen can help the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) protect-or even save-California's native sea otters and other rare, threatened and endangered animal and plant species. When you prepare your California...
Public Technologies 2018-02-15Drones may be a powerful tool for preserving endangered species. Researchers in Australia suggest that counting wildlife using drones is more accurate than traditional methods, according to a paper published on Tuesday in the British Ecological Society journal "Methods in Ecology and Evolution." Counting a species is crucial to conservation efforts. "With so many animals across...
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