Bats Adapt Echolocation Frequency to Different Situations
A recent study looking at the frequencies of bat echolocation calls has helped explain why some bats produce much higher frequency calls than others. It has long been known that …
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Scientists Need Help Monitoring Bat Diversity Around Chicago
November 28, 2012 / Illinois, United States, North AmericaScientists at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo Urban Wildlife Institute are looking for the public help in their project to monitor bat diversity. Ever since white-nose syndrome was discovered in Indiana …
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Climatologists Use Stalactites to Refine Sea-Level Rise Predictions
Climatologists working in a cave near the Red Sea are using stalactites to improve the accuracy of their predictions of sea level rise. Researchers at the UK’s University of Southampton …
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Creatures of Glenwood Caverns Featured in New Book
November 17, 2012 / Colorado, United States, North AmericaA new book featuring the incredible cave creatures of Colorado’s Glenwood Caverns has just been released to the public. Written by cave biologist David Steinmann, a Research Associate with the …
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Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island’s Cave Believed Found
November 1, 2012 / California, United States, North AmericaAfter its location was lost to history, a cave, suspected to be the home of the “Lone Woman of San Nicolas”, has been located. The last surviving member of the …
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Tracking Dogs to Assist Flordia Bat Researchers
October 29, 2012 / Florida, United States, North AmericaThis winter biologists Paula Halupa and Marilyn Knight of the South Florida Ecological Services Office will be enlisting dogs in their search for the elusive Florida bonneted bats, the largest …
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Student Project Looks Into Why People Venture Underground?
October 27, 2012Why do humans, who are supposed to live on the surface of the earth, go underground? Florian Poidevin, a student at the Parisian Institute of Higher Education in Business and …
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Giant Harvestman Spider Discovered in Laos
One of the world’s largest harvestman spider has been discovered in a cave during a research trip to Laos. Measuring in at more than 33 centimeters (13 inches) long, the …
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Researchers Find More Information in Bat Echolocation Calls
New research into bat echolocation calls has revealed that they contain much more information than is needed to hunt or find their way around in the dark. The study, undertaken …
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Unique Coral Discovered in Caves of Tropical Coral Reefs
A new coral species, identified recently in the open access journal ZooKeys, has been found to survives in complete darkness on the ceilings of underwater caves in coral reefs of …
