Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus): a large pinniped marine mammal. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Carnivora Clade: | ...
The enormous subalpine woolly rat, seemingly lost for decades, was recently rediscovered high in the mountains of Papua New Guinea.
ABSTRACT: Palestine (27,000 km2) is home to a diversity of marine and terrestrial vertebrate fauna of Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic origins. Numerous vertebrate species have been mummified ...
Lists of species are essential for the scientific community and general users, forming a base on the richness and diversity of studies and projects in conservation, local livelihoods, zoonoses ...
A six-month expedition to the tropical island of New Guinea has led to a remarkable discovery by a young Czech doctoral candidate from the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the ...
ABSTRACT: Bouche du Roy, a community mangrove ecosystem in the RAMSAR 1017 site in Benin, is important for bird conservation. However, it faces many anthropogenic threats. Conservation efforts have ...
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Decennatherium pachecoi Crusafont, 1952, is one of two giraffid species described from the Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula. This species is recovered exclusively from Vallesian faunas (MN9-10, late ...
The Neotropical otter, Lontra annectens, is a predator specialized in aquatic prey, and the main diet of this otter is fish, supplemented mainly by crustaceans and opportunistically by mollusks, ...
The egg-laying monotremes have played a central role in our understanding of mammalian evolution, but their fossil record is poor and their evolutionary history is controversial. Living monotremes are ...
Little is known about the influence of the urban environments on bat species 'ecology. The urbanization process potentially lead to critical ecological changes in bat communities' intra and ...