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Sushi for Peccaries?
April 29, 2013 — It turns out the white-lipped peccary —- a piglike animal from Central and South America —- will settle for fish when fruits (its main food) are no longer on the menu, according to ... > full story -
Smoke Signals: How Burning Plants Tell Seeds to Rise from the Ashes
April 29, 2013 — In the spring following a forest fire, trees that survived the blaze explode in new growth and plants sprout in abundance from the scorched earth. For centuries, it was a mystery how seeds, some long ... > full story -
World's Longest-Running Plant Monitoring Program Now Digitized
April 29, 2013 — Researchers have digitized 106 years of growth data on the birth, growth and death of individual plants on Tumamoc Hill in Tucson, Ariz., making the information available for study by people all over ... > full story -
Sea Turtles Benefiting from Protected Areas
April 29, 2013 — Nesting green sea turtles are benefiting from marine protected areas by using habitats found within their boundaries, according to a new study that is the first to track the federally protected ... > full story -
First Snapshot of Organisms Eating Each Other: Feast Clue to Smell of Ancient Earth
April 29, 2013 — Tiny 1,900-million-year-old fossils from rocks around Lake Superior, Canada, give the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other and suggest what the ancient Earth would have smelled ... > full story -
Cicadas Get a Jump on Cleaning
April 29, 2013 — As cicadas on the East Coast begin emerging from their 17-year slumber, a spritz of dew drops is all they need to keep their wings fresh and ... > full story -
Dinosaur Predecessors Gain Ground in Wake of World's Biggest Biodiversity Crisis
April 29, 2013 — Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after Earth's greatest mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs taking hold in Tanzania and Zambia in the ... > full storyMore: -
No Redoubt: Volcanic Eruption Forecasting Improved
April 29, 2013 — Forecasting volcanic eruptions with success is heavily dependent on recognizing well-established patterns of pre-eruption unrest in the monitoring data. But in order to develop better monitoring ... > full story -
Singing Humpback Whales Tracked on Northwest Atlantic Feeding Ground
April 29, 2013 — Male humpback whales sing complex songs in tropical waters during the winter breeding season, but they also sing at higher latitudes at other times of the year. NOAA researchers have provided the ... > full story -
U. S. Has Surprisingly Large Reservoir of Crop Plant Diversity
April 29, 2013 — North America isn’t known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity, yet a new inventory has uncovered nearly 4,600 wild relatives of crop plants in the United States, including close relatives of ... > full story
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