Especially hawks, but also red kites and sea eagles often accumulate toxins in their bodies. (Image: Oliver Krone / Leibniz-IZW)
Sad "descent": In Germany...
The whitefly, which is around one millimeter in size, can attack over 600 different plant species. (Image: Jixing Xia and Zhaojiang Guo)
The "success story"...
Sauteur d'Alfort rabbits walk handstands on their front legs instead of hopping. (Image: Carneiro M et al., 2021, PLOS Genetics)
Rabbits, hares, kangaroos,...
Cultivation with plowing or no-till. (Image: Inger Struck)
No-till as a climate aid: If farmers forego plowing before sowing, the carbon dioxide emissions from...
From penguins to whale sharks: many larger marine animals have circular movement patterns. (Illustration: Narazaki et al. / IScience)
Sea turtles, penguins, sharks and...
Three elements in the structure of insect wings ensure that collisions and wind forces cannot harm them during flight. (Image: Hamed Rajabi)
Stable, durable...
Goats could solve the problems better than sheep. (Image: Christian Nawroth)
Because of similar: sheep and goats are genetically similar, in their physique and...
New discovery from the Messel pit: the Hirmoneura messelense fly (Image: Senckenberg)
47 million years ago it buzzed from flower to flower: Scientists discovered the...
Study results suggest that humans have developed a comparatively low water requirement in the course of their evolution. (Image: caracterdesign / iStock)
One of...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21282-5
Rice plants easily absorb the toxic heavy metal arsenic through their roots, which means that rice is often considered to be highly polluted. ...