In a study published in Historical Biology, Dr. Mohammed Naimi and his colleagues report the discovery of the first plesiosaurian remains from Algeria. Additionally, the fossil, dated to the Late ...

Stanhope, Weardale: One of the best gifts I’ve ever received is a microscope. Sixty years on, it’s still a wonder to watch a mini rainforest in action It was hard to resist running my fingers over the ...

Soil fauna is an essential component of the soil ecosystem for maintaining nutrient cycling and biological soil fertility. This study assessed the soil biodiversity (macrofauna, mesofauna, and ...

Jessiah Hahs Brinkley’s fear of spiders turned into fascination, and then infatuation. As a child, he had nightmares after smashing black widows with his grandfather in the eaves and crannies of his ...

Out-of-state visitors may not know what they’re looking at, but fans of Texas Christian University (TCU) get fired up when SuperFrog runs onto the football field. Human-size and gray, with pointy ...

Wastewater treatment system by activated sludge, the purification of the organic matter by specific heterogeneous microorganisms, occurs in the presence of oxygen in aeration tanks. The analysis of ...

Dramatic climatic and environmental fluctuations in the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene led to widespread shifts in the distribution and abundance of many species. Recent excavations at Wogan ...

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have uncovered how soil food webs promote the transformation and storage of photosynthetic carbon in ...

本文系统阐述了秸秆还田（SR）通过激发效应（priming effect）调控土壤食物网多营养级互作，促进作物光合碳向土壤活性碳（POC）和稳定碳（MAOC）库转化的路径。研究发现土壤微动物（microfauna）是驱动土壤碳更新的关键环节（贡献度60.5%），揭示了"作物-土壤 ...

Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its megafauna, is now drawing attention for a far smaller yet equally vital component of its ecosystem: insects and ...

The Karner blue butterfly, once thought to have vanished from parts of Michigan, is back. According to MLive, researchers documented the federally endangered insect this summer in the Muskegon State ...