Research: What could cause the Mississippi Bight to become hypoxic? —
Coastal regions with low dissolved oxygen (known as hypoxia) can lead to poor water quality and harm regional fisheries. These areas of low...
Research: Microbiome implicated in sea star wasting disease —
The culprit might be many microbes. Since 2013, a gruesome and mysterious disease has killed millions of sea stars along the West Coast...
Research: Social network helps birds pick best way of using thermal updrafts —
A new study has revealed how vultures use their very own social networks to work out the best way to take advantage of...
Research: Orangutans spontaneously bend straight wires into hooks to fish for food —
The bending of a hook into wire to fish for the handle of a basket is surprisingly challenging for young children under eight...
Research: Rare three-species hybrid warbler —
Scientists have shown that a bird found in Pennsylvania is the offspring of a hybrid warbler mother and a warbler father from an...
Research: After a bad winter in the ocean, female Magellanic penguins suffer most, study...
Every autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, Magellanic penguins leave their coastal nesting sites in South America. For adults, their summer task -- breeding,...
Research: Dry conditions may have helped a new type of plant gain a foothold...
In the dramatically changing conditions of ancient Earth, organisms had to evolve new strategies to keep up. From the mid-Oligocene, roughly 30 million...
Research: Climate change causing more severe wildfires, larger insect outbreaks in temperate forests —
A warmer, drier climate is expected is increase the likelihood of larger-scale forest disturbances such as wildfires, insect outbreaks, disease and drought, according...
Research: Using geology to track elusive hawks —
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are perfecting an innovative way to track the migration of elusive wildlife to help in their conservation.
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Research: Cockatoos adjust length, but not width, when making their cardboard tools —
Goffin's cockatoos can tear cardboard into long strips as tools to reach food -- but fail to adjust strip width to fit through...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
