The rare find provides a unique insight into the evolutionary history of an organism that has survived five mass extinctions.
Tartars are famous for...
Measurements with a tethered balloon on the coast of Ny-Ålesund on Svalbard. (Image: Sebastian Zeppenfeld / TROPOS)
The lower air layers play a crucial...
An oppressively hot trend is emerging. (Image: Tomwang112 / iStock)
Almost a quarter of the world's population is now affected: exposure to urban heat...
Researchers discovered this by accident.
the tree skink (Egernia striolata) is usually monogamous. Females only mate with their mate. Together they have offspring....
And that's still a conservative estimate; in reality, global light pollution may have increased by 270 percent(!) in a quarter of a century.
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