Are rivers guilty?
November 15, 2019
A unique project, integrating river and oceanic data, aims to shed light onto the drivers of marine hypoxia
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Butterflies take different paths to arrive at the same color pattern
November 14, 2019
Unrelated butterflies may have the same wing patterns. These patterns warn off predators and help suitors find the right mate. But if wing patterns in each species evolved the same way, knocking out an important gene should have the same effect in both. Carolina Concha and her team discovered that knocking out the WntA gene results in different effects in co-mimics, so the two species evolved...
Venomous snake captures frog-eating bat
November 01, 2019
Hubert Szczygieł recently arrived at STRI in Panama and is already becoming one of Gamboa’s most awesome natural historians.
Vampire bat bonding persists from the lab to the wild
October 31, 2019
Bats moved from a captive colony back to a tree stayed with their friends.
Journalists congress, Ben Turner receives research award, Long Ago receives scientific award, Jeff Hall talk at water security event and more
October 30, 2019
Farewell Bob Dressler, Ben Turner receives research award, Long Ago receives scientific award, Jeff Hall talk at water security event, Archaeology talk in Veracruz
Are bats spying on their prey in the canopy?
October 22, 2019
Eavesdropping behavior in the canopy may answer questions about how acoustic interplay among animals has developed over millions of years in the forest
What makes a good (primate) leader?
October 17, 2019
Does a good leader have a better mental map of food in the forest? or is she simply driven by hunger?
Imprinting on mothers may drive speciation in poison dart frogs
October 09, 2019
Imprinting on parental color may be more important than genetics when it comes to the evolution of new species.
Microbes in warm soils released more carbon than those in cooler soils
October 08, 2019
Warming tropical soils could cause a 9 % increase in atmospheric CO2 this Century.
