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Scientists have added another piece to the evolutionary puzzle to explain why certain mammal families evolved to be very large, while others remained very tiny. In research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, an international group of scientists including Monash Universit

While fish don’t have ears that we can see, they do have ear parts inside their heads that can pick up sounds in the water. ADVERTISEMENT Not only do fish and invertebrates make their own sounds, but wind, waves and currents also create other background noise. And reefs especial

ENN Twitter A subspecies of tigers called the Sumatran Tiger is nearly extinct due to human involvement in its habitat, according to a new research paper. These tigers are found exclusively on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and only 400 of them live today. ADVERTISEMENT According to

A consortium of gas companies headed by Pluspetrol and including Hunt Oil, plans on detonating approximately 38 tons of explosives in the south-east Peruvian Amazon in one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. ADVERTISEMENT The detonations are part of 2D and 3D seismic tests pl

There are dangers for people who work with lead. There are also dangers for birds who live near lead. About half of ground-feeding songbirds collected from a historic lead mining district in southeast Missouri contained toxic levels of lead in their blood and internal organs, accordin

Believe it or not, but over 55 million Americans feed wild birds and spend over $3 billion a year on bird food, and millions more on bird feeders, baths, and other accessories. Many of us have at least one bird feeder in our yards, not only to decorate our outdoor space, but also to a

Humans do math or at least some humans can do so. New research shows that to prevent starvation at night, plants perform accurate arithmetic division. The calculation allows them to use up their starch reserves at a constant rate so that they run out almost precisely at dawn. Plants f

During the Permian era, the Earth was dominated by a single supercontinent called Pangea — “All-Earth”. Animal and plant life dispersed broadly across this land, as documented by identical fossil species found on multiple modern continents. But a new study published in the

In Lewis Carroll”s “Through the Looking Glass,” the Red Queen described her country as a place where “it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” From this, the Red Queen hypothesis has been formed. Also referred to as the Red Queen E

ENN Twitter A new species of ant has recently been discovered in the Hortarium of the Los Baños University in the Philippines. Scientists named it the pirate ant (Cardiocondyla pirata) due to the female’s unique pigmentation pattern: a distinctive stripe across the eyes that resembles