Domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals every year, making them a top threat to US wildlife.
Domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals every year, making them a top threat to US wildlife.
A proposal to simulate all of Earth’s ecosystems is exposing a rift between small and big ecology.
The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.
In the final chapter of his book on the origins of vertebrate sex, author and paleontologist John Long pays homage to the humble placoderm, which got the erotic ball rolling.
| January 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the January 2013 issue of The Scientist.
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