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5,512 results for: Forests

  1. Animals

    Three-toed sloths are even more slothful than two-toed sloths

    The three-toed sloth Bradypus variegatus has the lowest field metabolic rate ever recorded, a new study finds.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  2. Life

    Many Amazon trees endangered

    Large numbers of Amazon tree species are threatened by deforestation.

    By Chris Samoray
  3. Animals

    New tree frog genus discovered in India

    Researchers unveil a newly identified tree frog genus from northeastern India that eats mom’s eggs.

    By Helen Thompson
  4. Plants

    ‘Lab Girl’ invites readers into hidden world of plants

    In Lab Girl, geobiologist Hope Jahren reveals secret lives of plants — and scientists.

    By Meghan Rosen
  5. Life

    Cities create accidental experiments in plant, animal evolution

    To look for evolution in human-scale time, pick a city and watch a lizard. Or some clover.

    By Susan Milius
  6. Archaeology

    Lasers unveil secrets and mysteries of Angkor Wat

    The world’s largest temple, Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, was revealed by laser and radar studies to be part of a sprawling medieval metropolis.

    By Bruce Bower
  7. Animals

    Wildfires are an unexpected threat to California condors

    Lead poisoning remains a threat to California condors, but a new review finds that wildfires may also be a danger to the big birds.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  8. Animals

    Mystery deepens for what made tarantulas blue

    Blue hair on tarantulas shows what evolution does with iridescence that females probably don’t care about.

    By Susan Milius
  9. Neuroscience

    Jessica Cantlon seeks the origins of numerical thinking

    Cognitive neuroscientist Jessica Cantlon wants to find out how humans understand numbers and where that understanding comes from.

    By Elizabeth Quill
  10. Animals

    Purpose of zebra stripes remains a mystery

    Zebra stripes don’t help the animals disappear in the vision of predators, a new study finds.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  11. Animals

    Great tits sing with syntax

    Humans are no longer the only species to use compositional syntax. Great tits do, too.

    By Helen Thompson
  12. Astronomy

    Some of sun’s magnetic fields may act more like forests

    A swaying forest of mangrovelike magnetic fields on the sun could be the answer to why the solar atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than the surface.

    By Christopher Crockett