[ad_1] Reconstructed Triassic landscape at the Museum am Löwentor, Stuttgart (Germany), with Chiniquodon theotonicus (left), Batrachotomus kupferzellensis (right), and, poorly visible in the foreground below the water table, a large temnospondyl. Image Credit: Ghedoghedo/Wikipedia A 236-million-year-old fossil from Argentina may have provided the earliest evidence yet that an animal on the evolutionary lineage leading to…

[ad_1] Avocado (single and halved). Image Credit: Ivar Leidus/Wikipedia Avocados growing in Nicaragua may carry a remarkable record of ancient human migration across the Americas. A new study published in ‘Plants, People, Planet’ has found that several avocado varieties growing in Nicaragua are genetically distinct from the commercial varieties commonly found today and are more…

[ad_1] Prairie dog, Image: AI Generated The black-footed ferret is North America’s rarest mammal, with only about 300 estimated to survive in the wild at the end of 2015. The species has been listed as endangered since 1967, and its survival is closely tied to prairie dogs, which provide almost all of its food as…

[ad_1] Nasa-backed SPARK project could send tiny ‘aerobots’ into caves on Saturn’s moon Titan( PC: AI Generated) Nasa has backed a new concept that could send small flying robots into caves on Saturn’s moon Titan. The project, called SPARK, proposes lightweight vehicles known as aerobots that could be released by a larger spacecraft and guided…

[ad_1] Hawaii’s native Hawaiian stilt, known as aeʻo, has made a remarkable recovery after decades of population decline pushed the bird to roughly 200 individuals in the 1940s. Habitat loss, hunting and introduced predators had severely affected the long-legged wetland bird. More than five decades of legal protection, wetland restoration, predator control and monitoring have…