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In icy regions, researchers find polar opposite in predators

January 25, 2019

Take a cruise from the equator to the poles and you might notice some important changes in marine ecosystem. Species diversity is greater in the tropics, and it dwindles as the climate becomes colder. But …

Removing invasive island rats could help coral reefs

August 8, 2018

Invasive rats are notorious for their devastation of island ecosystems, but their damage might go deeper than scientists once believed. Biologists recently discovered that nonnative rats could impede the flow of nutrients from seabirds to …