Earth & Climate

Featured picture: Powerful crab larva

This crab larva is only two millimeters in size and is still largely transparent. But that doesn't mean she's defenseless: her tentacles, which...

On the trail of the secret of the green Sahara

After rare rainfall, green is still sprouting in the Sahara today. (Image: Rachid Cheddadi) Where the sun burns on the bare ground today, a...

New insights into the origins of flowering plants

Fossil blooms from the early Cretaceous period. (Image: NIGPAS) Flowering plants have a unique characteristic that has contributed to their evolutionary success: their seeds...

Featured picture: Wild dogs in hyena look

At first glance, these African wild dogs resemble hyenas and their hunting behavior is also quite similar. The wild dog, therefore also known...

Eco-energy: where are the limits?

Earth at night. (Image: NASA / GSFC) Renewable energies are considered natural and environmentally friendly alternatives to fossil fuels. But with the use...

Ice Age intercontinental exchange

When the Bering Land Bridge dried up in the Pleistocene Ice Ages, the horse populations of North America and Eurasia met and mingled. ...

What Inhibited Mammals in the Dino Era

Representatives of early mammalian lineages such as this comparatively large gobiconodon may have suppressed the development of the ancestors of modern mammals during the...

Featured picture: A chameleon with a spiked comb

Obviously, this green reptile is a chameleon. But this specimen, discovered in Ethiopia, belongs to a previously unknown species, which is noticeable, among...

Inner ears reveal secrets

Inner ear model of the bird-like Hesperornis with the arches of the vestibular system above and the elongated cochlea below. (Image: Michael Hanson...

Featured picture: The egg under X-ray shot

Whether hard-boiled or as a fried egg like here: eggs are part of Easter. With the help of a special X-ray technique, researchers...

Featured picture: Metal supplier to the deep sea

The lump on this shot looks like a black-brown cauliflower. In fact, there is a potentially important deep-sea metal supplier behind the strange...

Solar cells are “contagious”

Solar system on a house roof. (Image: querbeet / iSotck) Whether you mount a photovoltaic system on the roof does not only depend on...

Lively – but surprisingly slow

How did Tyrannosaurus rex move on a leisurely foray through his realm? According to a study, a person could even have accompanied...

Featured picture: Black hole in full spectrum

Astronomers have now recorded the black hole M87 *, which became famous for its photo in 2019, for the first time in all areas...

Climate change: Arming is the order of the day

Gloomy future prospects for the German cultural landscape. Smart adaptations are necessary to withstand the effects of climate change. (Image: Boonyachoat /...

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