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Amy Zanne visits CMEC

Amy Zannee, Associate Professor at George Washington University in the USA visists CMEC for the nex…

Two giant grants from the EU to CGG

The Natural History Museum of Denmark has received two large research grants totalling approximatel…

Experts urge extreme caution on “rewilding” to save wild places

Efforts to “rewild” the landscape have become increasingly popular, but a new paper led by the…

Hummingbirds provide insight into food specialisation across the Americas

The mapping of food specialisation in hummingbird communities across the Americas, has led to a rar…

Tropical diseases

A predictive risk map for the nematode parasite Mansonella perstans in Uganda

Infection with the nematode parasite Mansonella perstans is one of the most neglected of the…

TRACING MELTING ICE

The Greenland Ice Sheet during the 20th Century – a missing link in IPCC’s climate report

For the very first time, climate researchers from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History…

The cuckoo sheds new light on the scientific mystery of bird migration

The cuckoo is not only capable of finding its way from unknown locations; it does this through…

The most vulnerable countries miss out on climate change knowledge

Collaborations on climate change research are divided into separate regions of the world with littl…

Bugs collected on rooftop for 18 years reveal climate change effects

Study of insects on the roof of Zoological Museum has revealed local insect community turnover due…

Bugs collected on rooftop for 18 years reveal climate change effects

Study of insects on the roof of Zoological Museum has revealed local insect community turnover due…

More than pony-rides

In the 19. October issue of Current Biology, Ludovic Orlando presents why the equid family…

Plague Infected Humans Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

However, it was at least another thousand years until the bacterium that causes the disease,…

European birdwatchers unravel how birds respond to climate change

New details on how birds respond to climate change have been revealed by volunteer bird watchers al…

Copepod migrations are important for the ocean’s uptake of CO2

Zooplankton no bigger than grains of rice play a much larger role in the transport and storage of…

Life in the soil

Biodiversity belowground is just as important as aboveground

Most of the world’s biodiversity is below ground, but little is known about how it affects…

The Sumatran rhino is extinct in the wild in Malaysia

The future survival of the wild Sumatran rhinos now depends entirely on the less than 100…

The population history of Native Americans

There is archaeological evidence of modern humans in the Americas by approx. 15 thousand years ago…

New strong research bonds with Borneo

A new joint effort of Nordic and Malaysian researchers are expected to lead to knowledge that can…

NATIVE AMERICAN ORIGINS

Kennewick Man: solving a scientific controversy

When Kennewick Man was discovered in 1996 initial cranial analysis suggested that he was a…

Improving access to endogenous DNA in ancient bones and teeth

Damgaard PB, Margaryan A, Schroeder H, Orlando L, Willerslev E, Allentoft ME. Improving access to…

BRONZE AGE GENETICS

When modern Eurasia was born

Modern European and Central Asian peoples are genetically speaking not more than a couple of…

B10K - Toward decoding all bird genomes

Today (3rd June, 2015) we formally announce the launch of the Bird 10,000 genomes (B10K) project.

B10K - Towards decoding all bird genomes

Today we formally announce the launch of the Bird 10,000 genomes (B10K) project, an initiative to…

Poorly preserved DNA from African slaves reveals their origins

An analysis of DNA extracted from the tooth roots of three 17th century slaves reveals that they…

World’s governments are failing on protected areas for nature

A new study has found that while governments are making progress in expanding Protected Area…

Planetary Boundaries

Four of nine planetary boundaries now crossed

Four of nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed as a result of human activity, says a team…

International team maps "BIG BANG" of bird evolution

The genomes of modern birds tell a story of how they emerged and evolved after the mass extinction…

POISONOUS LUNCH

Vultures evolved an extreme gut to cope with disgusting dietary habits

How is it that vultures can live on a diet of carrion that would at least lead to severe…

Early European history

Ancient genomes show the European meta-populations

DNA recovered from a 36,000 year old fossil skeleton found in Russia shows early divergence of…

Biodiversity targets

More investment needed to reach international biodiversity targets by 2020

Despite some progress, more needs to be done to reach the internationally agreed set of biodiversit…