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• Fossil study links extinctions to warming
Temps and biodiversity In the British study, Mayhew and his colleagues looked at temperatures in 10 million-year chunks because fossil records aren't that precise in time measurements. They then compared those to the number of species, the number of ...
• New lichen species discovered in Yosemite
There is a tremendous amount of biodiversity that hasn't been discovered here in Yosemite," said Niki Nicholas, the park's chief of resources management and science. "People probably think that Yosemite has been around forever so everything must have ...
• Hundreds of new animal species found
So in that sense, it's very significant in that if we don't understand what biodiversity is out there, we don't have much of a chance of protecting it," he said. Scientists at several Australian museums have begun the complex process of working with ...
• Science: New iguana species discovered
Efforts to describe the diversity of Pacific iguanas is important in setting biodiversity targets for the Pacific Basin, Fisher said. "This island basin is currently under attack by a number of invasive species such as the brown tree snake, various ...
• Strange 'ant from Mars' discovered
Rabeling says the discovery, detailed in the Sept. 15 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, will help biologists better understand the biodiversity and evolution of ants. Ants evolved more than 120 million years ago ...