Sawfishes wouldn’t be sawfishes if they didn’t come equipped with long toothy snouts—their saws. Now, researchers reporting in the March 6 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have figured out what they use those saws for, and it turns out the answer is quite impressive. It might even help save the critically endangered and incredibly elusive sawfishes.
Chimpanzee populations living in relatively close proximity are substantially more different genetically than humans living on different continents, according to a study published today in PLoS Genetics. The study suggests that genomics can provide a valuable new tool for use in chimpanzee conservation, with the potential to identify the population of origin of an individual chimpanzee or the provenance of a sample of bush meat.
A contribution to our knowledge of the varieties of the wall-lizard (Lacerta muralis) in Western Europe and North Africa London,Zoological Society,1905 biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12847245 Follow the Herparazzi team as they explore De Hoge Fronten, a collection of battlements that were built in the 17th and 18th century for the defense and protection of Maastricht, The Netherlands. There, we found the last remaining and most northern natural population of wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) in The Netherlands.
Bacteria normally found 30km above the earth have been identified as highly efficient generators of electricity.
The Table Mountain Ghost Frog, Heleophryne rosei, is listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. This elusive species is restricted to swift-flowing streams on the slopes of Cape Town’s iconic Table Mountain.
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