Credit: California Academy of Sciences/Cover Images The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the ...

Three university students have photographed what may be the most elusive mammal on the planet. In October last year, the ...

The three students traveled to the eastern region of the Sierra Nevada, where the Mount Lyell shrew roams, and set up 150 pitfall traps. They planned to check the traps every two hours because the ...

Carnivorous plants employ several different techniques to capture their prey. These include traps that are pitfall, snap (or "mechanical"), flypaper, bladder or lobster cage in nature or action.

Shrews have such a high metabolic rate that they die if they stop eating for a few hours, meaning that they don’t survive long in traps. The team set more than 100 pitfall traps, designed for ...

Understanding the ecology of wireworms ... which was found to significantly attract male beetles to traps[2]. This finding suggests that pheromone-based traps could be an effective method for ...

São Paulo nurseries bring the city’s rare and forgotten trees back to life ...

The collections were carried out from pitfall traps, from April/2017 to December/2018. A total of 2619 individuals of Coleoptera were collected, distributed in 30 families, and 637 individuals of ...

Jan. 31, 2025 — DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver. Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ...

Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment. It considers processes that occur at the population, community and ecosystem levels and has a particular focus ...

Understanding the ecology, biogeochemical environment, marine conditions, and societal impacts of nearshore environments ranging from wetlands and estuaries to the edge of the continental shelf.