A cheetah pouncing on a gazelle. A bear snatching a fish out of the water with its claws. And the most dangerous predator of them all? A human and their pet bird dancing to “Gangnam Style.” Scientists ...
In the most comprehensive study of animal evolution ever attempted, an international consortium of scientists plans to assemble a genomic zoo–a collection of DNA sequences for 10,000 vertebrate ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
Producing reference genomes for all known eukaryotic species (~1.8 million) over the next decade is a daunting task. But the Earth BioGenome Project is hoping to do exactly that. Two separate projects ...
The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...
A study identifies that at least eleven species of vertebrates benefit from this carrion, including Arctic foxes and ravens. There are between 22,000 and 26,000 polar bears in the world, distributed ...
Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...
About 55% of humans' victim species are killed for food, most of them other mammals and fish, such as these in Gaza City in 2021. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) A cheetah pouncing on a gazelle. A ...