Two water masses meet here in the ozone, but vertical stratifications are much more important. (Image: Jiang Zhu)
The oceans are important actors in...
The “Glanzlichter 2020” photo competition is the largest international nature photo competition in Germany and has been advertised annually since 1999. A jury...
Shell crab fossils in 100 million year old amber (Image: He Wang & Xiangdong Zhao)
An international team of paleontologists has discovered exceptionally well-preserved tiny...
In the rainforest and in other tree populations around the world, the following clearly applies: Trees that grow quickly die young. (Image: Atelopus...
Piece of an enstatite-chondrite meteorite in which the researchers found a surprising amount of hydrogen. (Photo: L. Piani, Museum of Natural History in...
Aquatic plants are the service providers of marine ecosystems: They provide habitats for fish and other marine life, are food for migratory birds, part...
This is what a hibernating lystrosaur might have looked like. (Image: Crystal Shin)
The clever strategy with which some of today's animals survive times...
Exposed head of the sauropod embryo (Image: Kundrat et al. / Current Biology)
Sauropods - long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs - were the largest land animals to...