An international team of scientists has discovered in the Nevada desert the remains of a monstrous marine predator, 8.6 meters long, which could have been the first great predator of the oceans, capable of devouring prey of its own size . It took three weeks to unearth the ichthyosaur and prepare it for transport by land and by helicopter.
An international team of scientists has discovered a new species of primate in the Borneo rainforest. According to the authors of the finding in the American Journal of Primatology, the animal is a lazy lori or slow lori (Nycticebus), a genus of primates related to lemurs that live in Asia and that are exceptional because their bite is toxic, which which makes them the only poisonous monkeys in the world.
The new species that are collected by scientists take more than twenty years on average to be described, time that they usually spend on museum shelves, as indicated by a study published this week in the journal Current Biology. Researchers have called this period "shelf life," and the fact that it is so long is for several reasons.
A team of researchers has identified four new species of Onychodactylus, a unique genus of Asian salamanders that lack lungs and, unlike the rest, have finger nails. Scientists, including experts from the CSIC, say in the journal Zootaxa that the finding will allow us to delve into the evolutionary history of this group of animals from East Asia.
27 years have been enough for one of the most beautiful natural places on Earth to have deteriorated in an alarming way. According to a new report published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, the Great Australian Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef, has lost half its population. What have been the causes?
In the waters off the Mexican coast, scientists from North Carolina State University (USA) have discovered a fish that has four hook-shaped hooks on its penis. The new species has been named Gambusia quadruncus.
An international team of researchers has discovered a new species of African primate, Cercopithecus lomamiensis, known locally as the lesula. It is the second new species of monkey discovered in Africa in the last 28 years, according to the journal PLoS ONE.
"Every year more jellyfish are seen ..." This is one of the most frequent comments among bathers who visit the beaches of our coasts each summer. The global increase in jellyfish populations is a fact that worries tourists and intrigues scientists. The increase in water temperature and other aspects related to the biology of jellyfish in their adult life have been some of the variables on which the latest research has focused. Now, a team of scientists led by the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (University of the Balearic Islands and CSIC) takes a turn of the screw and offers another explanation to the problem: the increase in human infrastructures such as ports and oil platforms favors the proliferation of these animals.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
