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Urban birds adapt better to new environments

As suggested by a study published in the journal Oecologia, in which researchers from the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC) participate, birds that coexist with human beings (for example, in cities) then have more possibilities to prosper by being released new habitats.

The loss of their habitats threatens the world's cats

Almost half of the 36 wild cat species in the world are threatened, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Furthermore, the lack of studies on the loss and fragmentation of the habitats they occupy makes it difficult to implement effective conservation strategies.

A grandfather of crocodiles was the greatest predator before the dinosaurs

A recently discovered crocodile ancestor, named Carolinensis Carnufex, was the top predator in North America before dinosaurs reached the continent.

A new island in the South Pacific

The atlas of the world has a freckle. Specifically, the new landmass is located 45 kilometers from Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga, an island country of Polynesia.

The marine worm that stabs its victims, seen in Spain

The EU-US Marine Biodiversity Research Group, coordinated by Professor Juan Junoy Pintos, from the University of Alcalá de Henares, has detected for the first time in our country the presence of Ototyphlonemertes duplex, a strange marine worm that has stones in the head and stabs his victims with the help of a stiletto.

How many plastics end up in the ocean each year?

We already know that seas and oceans have become landfills over time that accumulate huge amounts of plastic waste, but how much exactly? The last estimate was made in 1975, when it was found that approximately 0.1% of world plastic production was washed out to sea each year.

A fungus threatens the amphibians of Madagascar

The chytrid fungus of amphibians, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which is often lethal to these animals, has reached Madagascar ...

The peculiar microbes of the Mariana Trench

When filmmaker James Cameron descended into the Mariana Trench in 2012, he found that there was little movement there: the abyssal depths are not exactly a spectacle of marine biodiversity.

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