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Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/trade-in-marine-fish-for-aquariums-includes-threatened-species-lacks-oversight-study/

Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study
The United States is the main market for “ornamental” marine fish, those that end up as pets in aquariums. Now, a new study of U.S.-based online retailers has found that nearly 90% of traded species are sourced exclusively from the wild, including a number of threatened species, and that the trade is poorly tracked. The […]

"20 animal species on the road to recovery: IUCN Red List update"
#Animals
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/20…

20 animal species on the road to recovery: IUCN Red List update
From three species of Arctic seals to more than half of all birds globally, several animals have slipped closer to extinction, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List. However, 20 species have seen a positive change in their status: they’ve moved farther away from the threat of extinction, thanks to effective conservation […]

How Proposed Changes to the Endangered Species Act Could Further Threaten the Country's Imperiled Species - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20122025/how-proposed-changes-to-the-endangered-species-act-could-further-threaten-the-countrys-imperiled-species/

Pterosaur with unusual bristle-like teeth discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-new-species-of-flying-reptile-discovered-in-fossilized-dinosaur-vomit

Bizarre New Species of Flying Reptile Discovered in Fossilized Dinosaur Vomit
Imagine throwing up after a bad burrito – only for that heave to reveal the existence of onions to scientists 110 million years in the future.

foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted

Not surprised to see the anti conservation "conservatives" of the dreaded #Drumpf administration are eagerly attempting to dismantle the #EndangeredSpecies act ...
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Trump Moves to Weaken the Endangered Species Act
Four proposed rules could make it easier to drill for oil or harvest timber in areas where endangered species live.

Proposed Trump Endangered Species Act changes spark concern
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5613165-trump-endangered-species-act-esa/

I often think it is a disservice that climate change activism has focused on suffering and changes "over there" - our natural environment and cultural life will be as impoverished just as much by loss of familiar species and traditions as the Inuit hunting narwhal or Pacific Islanders forced to retreat from their coastlines.
https://mastodon.scot/@Kerplunk/115241857960561419
Kerplunk@mastodon.scot - @…
We will not just mourn the Beech, the wonderful white lady of the Forest, the Birch is also suffering badly.
No more collecting birch sap in the spring,
making syrup or sugar, no tea from leaves and bark, no bark for starting fires, making knife handles, boxes book covers ornaments. No more wood to make a traditional Kuksa (cup) bowls and toys. No making Birch tar or pitch, no forests in the north where Chaga and many other mushrooms to grow.
I mourn the loss of every tree.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 975 nodes and 3928 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

A statement from iNaturalist on experimenting with “AI-Assisted Identification Summaries” in 'Exploring New Ways to Learn from iNaturalist’s Community Expertise' https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/118695-exploring-new-ways…

Jesus fuck. Now you’re just embarrassing the species.
#uspol

Fact Check: Is Mamdani Introducing Arabic Numerals To New York Schools?
Arabic numerals are simply the digits 0 through 9—the standard number symbols used in every classroom in the United States.

"World’s 1,500th known bat species confirmed from Equatorial Guinea"
#Bats #Animals
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World’s 1,500th known bat species confirmed from Equatorial Guinea
From Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea, researchers have described what is officially recognized as the 1,500th bat species known to science, according to a recent study. The newly described bat is a species of pipistrelle, a group of tiny insect-eating bats, and scientists have named it Pipistrellus etula, with etula meaning “island” or “nation” in […]

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Urban Species:
🎵 Woman
#NowPlaying #UrbanSpecies
https://open.spotify.com/track/06yOVBBnuLmPU7GdpWZZQb

First Nature Reserve to Record 10,000 Species in UK–Thanks to Moth That Looks Like a Wasp https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/first-nature-reserve-to-record-10000-species-in-uk-thanks-to-moth-that-looks-like-a-wasp/…

First Nature Reserve to Record 10,000 Species in UK–Thanks to Moth That Looks Like a Wasp
The Wicken Fen nature reserve became the first in UK to record 10,000 species, after finding a unique moth that imitates a wasp.

Barfing is their love language.♥️ A kinky male fruit fly barfs up a bit of his last meal and offers it as a nuptial meal to his intended. Discerning lady fruit flies swoon, and lap it up. #science #entomology

A single protein makes lovesick flies spill their guts
Producing a male-specific protein in digestion-related neurons may have led to the evolution of an odd “romantic” barfing behavior in one species of fruit flies.

Not all flower visitors are equally helpful to the flower; separately tracking bees that buzz to release pollen and bees that steal pollen from flowers in a bunch of Chamaecrista species shows how tracking visitation alone would misrepresent the interactions
https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70758
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Noisy traffic is making Galšpagos’ yellow warblers angry https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/noisy-traffic-is-making-galapagos-yellow-warblers-angry/

Noisy traffic is making Galápagos’ yellow warblers angry
A recent study found that birds that live closer to roads display more aggression than birds of the same species that live farther away from noisy vehicles, Mongabay’s Spoorthy Raman reported. Researchers looked at the behavioral differences of male Galápagos yellow warblers (Setophaga petechia aureola) on two islands of the Galápagos, an Ecuadorian archipelago in […]

kegg_metabolic: Metabolic networks from KEGG (2006)
109 metabolic networks of various species, as extracted from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database in March 2006. Nodes are substances involved in enzymatic reactions present in the organism, and edges represent reactant-product pairs as extracted from the KEGG ligand database and matched against the present enzymes.
This network has 1705 nodes and 5023 edges.
Tags: Biological, Metabolic, Unweighted…

#idw Keeping pace with #ClimateChange: Genetic exchange enables rapid adaptation in songbirds
Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels
Exchange of genetic diversity between species accelerates evolutionary adaptation Climate change is rapidly altering our environment – and posing m…

Keeping pace with climate change: Genetic exchange enables rapid adaptation in songbirds

Endangered marmots make comeback on Vancouver Island
CBC reports that efforts by conservation groups to restore Vancouver Island marmots – a separate species endemic to the island that was near extinction twenty years ago – have rebounded to more than 400 animals.
https://www.

British Columbia - CBC News
Stay on top of British Columbia with the latest in news, weather, sports and interviews.

On an island in the Arctic Ocean, in a region that is warming as much as seven times as fast as the rest of the planet, the food chain is being turned upside down.
Underwater kelp forests are surging into once-frozen waters, replacing other native species.
Reindeer, cut off from traditional foraging routes over vanishing sea ice, now graze on seaweed when they cannot reach inland grasses and lichen.
And polar bears, deprived of the ice platforms they once used to hunt seals, …

Curious Reindeer and Charging Polar Bears: The Changing Wildlife at the Top of the Earth
Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.

"France’s birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban"
#France #Pesticides #Bees

Numerical modeling of laser cooling in molecules: From simple diatomics to polyatomics and radioactive species
Felix Kogel, Tatsam Garg, Phillip Gro{\ss}, Lukas Leczek, Marian Rockenh\"auser, Neil Shah, Jakob Wei{\ss}, Andreas Schindewolf, Tim Langen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16203

foodweb_little_rock: Little Rock Lake food web (1991)
A food web among the species found in Little Rock Lake in Wisconsin. Nodes are taxa (like species), either autotrophs, herbivores, carnivores or decomposers. Edges represent feeding (nutrient transfer) of one taxon on another.
This network has 183 nodes and 2494 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/11/number-of-wild-bee-species-at-risk-of-extinction-in-europe-doubles-in-10-years

SilvaScenes: Tree Segmentation and Species Classification from Under-Canopy Images in Natural Forests
David-Alexandre Duclos, William Guimont-Martin, Gabriel Jeanson, Arthur Larochelle-Tremblay, Th\'eo Defosse, Fr\'ed\'eric Moore, Philippe Nolet, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau, Philippe Gigu\`ere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09458…

SilvaScenes: Tree Segmentation and Species Classification from Under-Canopy Images in Natural Forests
Interest in robotics for forest management is growing, but perception in complex, natural environments remains a significant hurdle. Conditions such as heavy occlusion, variable lighting, and dense vegetation pose challenges to automated systems, which are essential for precision forestry, biodiversity monitoring, and the automation of forestry equipment. These tasks rely on advanced perceptual capabilities, such as detection and fine-grained species classification of individual trees. Yet, exi…

Total #SolarEclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx3025 -> "Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial intelligence analyses of nearly 100,000 vocalizations, we found that bird behavior was substantially affected by these few minutes of unexpected afternoon darkness. More than half of wild bird species changed their biological rhythms, with many producing a dawn chorus in the aftermath of the eclipse. This natural experiment underscores the power of light in structuring animal behavior: Even when 'night' lasts for just 4 minutes, robust behavioral changes ensue." -> "Variation in species response also informs us about variation in sensitivity to light, with implications for the impacts of artificial light."

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 264 nodes and 288 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Noothgrush:
🎵 Hatred for the Species
#Noothgrush
https://listen.20buckspin.com/track/noothgrush-hatred-for-the-species
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wdzPfRRn0J2ralVe5QNcj

"Pakistan declares its third marine protected area, but has a long way to go"
#Pakistan #Environment #Oceans

Pakistan declares its third marine protected area, but has a long way to go
KARACHI — On Sept. 2, the government of Balochistan province in Pakistan declared the country’s third marine protected area, around Miani Hor Lagoon on the country’s central coast. The biodiversity-rich lagoon hosts a lush mangrove forest, numerous bird species and threatened marine mammals. With the declaration of the Miani Hor Marine Protected Area (MPA), Pakistan […]

Species and area seen please?

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 327 nodes and 458 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Oh neat, a carnivorous death ball sponge!
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/southern-ocean-new-species

'Death Ball' Sponge and Glowing Worms Among Creatures Discovered in Southern Ocean

"Rachel Reeves, boasted to corporate executives that she has “unblocked” a large housing development in Sussex being held up by “some snails … a protected species or something … microscopic snails that you cannot even see”. .. The very rare little whirlpool ramshorn snail, by no means microscopic, is an indicator of fresh water not affected by sewage pollution"

Evaluating Large Language Models for IUCN Red List Species Information
Shinya Uryu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02830 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02830…

Evaluating Large Language Models for IUCN Red List Species Information
Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted in conservation to address the biodiversity crisis, yet their reliability for species evaluation is uncertain. This study systematically validates five leading models on 21,955 species across four core IUCN Red List assessment components: taxonomy, conservation status, distribution, and threats. A critical paradox was revealed: models excelled at taxonomic classification (94.9%) but consistently failed at conservation reasoning (27.2% for s…

Shocked to hear that «After careful consideration, we have decided to stop accepting new customers for Amazon Glacier (original standalone vault-based service) starting on December 15, 2025. There will be no change to the S3 Glacier storage classes as part of this plan». /s
For years I've been duly billed either 0,01 € or 0,00 € per month for some ancient Glacier test I never bothered to clean up. Now that makes me some kind of protected species on

I’ve just watched the last of a 5 part series by PBS Nova called “Human” with each episode subtitled with its focus. It is excellent.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/human-origins/
I was particularly struck by the last segment, noting that the roots of the Alphabet …

Human: Origins
Trace the remarkable origin story of Homo sapiens and the crucial moments that shaped our species.

nematode_mammal: Global nematode–mammal interactions (2018)
A global interaction web of interactions between nematodes and their host mammal species, extracted from the helminthR package and dataset. Nodes are annotated with species-level information.
This network has 30516 nodes and 146683 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Mijn leukste goede doel heeft elke masnd een nieuw project: We kappen 10.000 bomen om een dood bos te herstellen - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T1QJvRsjg8M
> We’re restoring a green desert and bringing back vultures, a keystone species, and one of nature’s most vital s…

"First Nature Reserve to Record 10,000 Species in UK–Thanks to Moth That Looks Like a Wasp"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

First Nature Reserve to Record 10,000 Species in UK–Thanks to Moth That Looks Like a Wasp
The Wicken Fen nature reserve became the first in UK to record 10,000 species, after finding a unique moth that imitates a wasp.

🍄 Subway station study reveals fungal communities
#subway

Subway station study reveals fungal communities
Subways don't just bring people together. They're also a hub of microbial activity, including fungi. Over the course of a year, an international team of researchers collected air samples from 15 stations in the Beijing subway network, one of the largest in the world, and cataloged the fungal species they found.

plant_pol_vazquez: Vazquez & Simberloff plant-pollinator webs
Eight bipartite networks of plants and pollinators, from the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surrounding areas in Rio Negro, Argentina, from September 1999 to Feburary 2000. Edge weights represent the frequency of species interaction, and there is a common set of vertices across all eight webs.
This network has 144 nodes and 31 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted, Multilayer

For anyone who cares about the environment - be it climate, toxics, endangered species, biodiversity, air quality, water quality- here's a chance to support removing Lee Zeldin, the EPA Administrator who is cheerfully removing all the environmental protections so many have worked so hard to put in place.
Please sign this petition to remove him from office:

Sign the Petition
Petition to Remove EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin

For anyone who cares about the environment - be it climate, toxics, endangered species, biodiversity, air quality, water quality- here's a chance to support removing Lee Zeldin, the EPA Administrator who is cheerfully removing all the environmental protections so many have worked so hard to put in place.
Please sign this petition to remove him from office:

Sign the Petition
Petition to Remove EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin

A rarely seen seven-arm octopus was captured on camera 2,300 feet below the surface in remarkable deep-sea footage.
The species
— formally known as the seven-arm octopus (Haliphron atlanticus)
— was recorded by the remotely operated vehicle Ventana, operated by the team at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
According to MBARI, the encounter occurred during a recent expedition in Monterey Bay and marks only the fourth time the organisation has observed…

Rarely-Seen Seven-Arm 'Blob' Octopus Filmed by Underwater Camera
These researchers have only filmed the species four times in 40 years.

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
---- - William Godwin - ----

Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/extinctions-already-happening-in-wales-as-report-lists-3000-at-risk-species/
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Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species
Nearly 3,000 species in the country of Wales, in the U.K., are now found in just a handful of locations, according to a recent report. These species include hundreds of plants, fungi and mosses, as well as 25 bird, six mammal, five freshwater fish and one amphibian species. The report, produced by Natural Resources Wales […]

Prefrontal scaling of reward prediction error readout gates reinforcement-derived adaptive behavior in primates
Tian Sang, Yichun Huang, Fangwei Zhong, Miao Wang, Shiqi Yu, Jiahui Li, Yuanjing Feng, Yizhou Wang, Kwok Sze Chai, Ravi S. Menon, Meiyun Wang, Fang Fang, Zheng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09761 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.09761
arXiv:2512.09761v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) enables adaptive behavior across species via reward prediction errors (RPEs), but the neural origins of species-specific adaptability remain unknown. Integrating RL modeling, transcriptomics, and neuroimaging during reversal learning, we discovered convergent RPE signatures - shared monoaminergic/synaptic gene upregulation and neuroanatomical representations, yet humans outperformed macaques behaviorally. Single-trial decoding showed RPEs guided choices similarly in both species, but humans disproportionately recruited dorsal anterior cingulate (dACC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC). Cross-species alignment uncovered that macaque prefrontal circuits encode human-like optimal RPEs yet fail to translate them into action. Adaptability scaled not with RPE encoding fidelity, but with the areal extent of dACC/dlPFC recruitment governing RPE-to-action transformation. These findings resolve an evolutionary puzzle: behavioral performance gaps arise from executive cortical readout efficiency, not encoding capacity.
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plant_pol_vazquez: Vazquez & Simberloff plant-pollinator webs
Eight bipartite networks of plants and pollinators, from the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surrounding areas in Rio Negro, Argentina, from September 1999 to Feburary 2000. Edge weights represent the frequency of species interaction, and there is a common set of vertices across all eight webs.
This network has 144 nodes and 31 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted, Multilayer

Fursuit idea:
A Synth (the species) that is themed like a classic (Moog) Synth (the instrument)
Including functional dials, jacks and speakers.
Walk around, have people make music with you
Bonus points for wooden veneer
I feel like someone must have done this already, but I can't find anything
#fursuit

"Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years"
#Europe #Bees #Insects

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis | Birds | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/10/biodiversity-conservation-world-bird-species-declining-arctic-seals-green-turtles-iucn-uae-aoe

"Sea urchin species on brink of extinction after marine pandemic"
#Oceans #SeaUrchin

Pacific Pocket Mouse Declared Endangered Species Candidate in California https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/pacific-pocket-mouse-declared-endangered-species-candidate-in-california-2025-10…

Pacific Pocket Mouse Declared Endangered Species Candidate in California
Center for Biological Diversity: SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously today to declare the Pacific pocket mouse a candidate species under the California Endangered Species Act, granting protections for them as the state conducts a yearlong review.

Nice demonstration of different pollinator species "pulling" floral morphology in different directions for optimal pollen deposition, in two South African wildflower species
#science

100,000 New Jobs Will Clean Up the Coastline and Protect Species from Plastic, Overdevelopment https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/100000-new-jobs-will-clean-up-the-coastline-and-protect-species-from-plastic-overdevelopment/…

100,000 New Jobs Will Clean Up the Coastline and Protect Species from Plastic, Overdevelopment
250 million people depend on coastal areas for their homes and livelihoods in sectors like fisheries, transport, and tourism.

"More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis"
#Birds #Animals

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 94 nodes and 424 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 464 nodes and 1321 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Malaysian companies dominate PNG forest-clearance permits: report https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/malaysian-companies-dominate-png-forest-clearance-permits-report/

Malaysian companies dominate PNG forest-clearance permits: report
Papua New Guinea’s rainforests, which span 28.2 million hectares (69.6 million acres), are among the most biodiverse in the world, hosting an estimated 5-8% of all species. The country also has one of the world’s highest rates of communal land ownership, with around 97% of land legally recognized as being customary tenure. Despite the ecological […]

New underwater acoustic camera identifies individual fish sounds, helping track threatened species
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/new-underwater-acoustic-camera-identifies-individual-fish-sounds-helping-track-threatened-species/

Endangered Species Protection Sought for New Mexico Flower Threatened by Fossil Fuel Industry https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/endangered-species-protection-sought-f…

Endangered Species Protection Sought for New Mexico Flower Threatened by Fossil Fuel Industry
TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect Allred’s flax under the Endangered Species Act.

kabr-tools: Automated Framework for Multi-Species Behavioral Monitoring
Jenna Kline, Maksim Kholiavchenko, Samuel Stevens, Nina van Tiel, Alison Zhong, Namrata Banerji, Alec Sheets, Sowbaranika Balasubramaniam, Isla Duporge, Matthew Thompson, Elizabeth Campolongo, Jackson Miliko, Neil Rosser, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Charles V. Stewart, Daniel I. Rubenstein
https://

kabr-tools: Automated Framework for Multi-Species Behavioral Monitoring
A comprehensive understanding of animal behavior ecology depends on scalable approaches to quantify and interpret complex, multidimensional behavioral patterns. Traditional field observations are often limited in scope, time-consuming, and labor-intensive, hindering the assessment of behavioral responses across landscapes. To address this, we present kabr-tools (Kenyan Animal Behavior Recognition Tools), an open-source package for automated multi-species behavioral monitoring. This framework in…

Blueberry species (genus Vaccinium) circled the Northern Hemisphere to travel from North America to Hawai'i— and then closed the loop to hybridize with a North American species
#science

Several species of fish are claimed to produce hallucinogenic effects when consumed,
a condition known as ichthyoallyeinotoxism.
For example, Sarpa salpa, a species of sea bream referred to as the "dream-fish", is commonly claimed to be hallucinogenic.
These widely distributed coastal fish are normally found in the Mediterranean and around the Iberian Peninsula,
west to the Azores and along the west and south coasts of Africa.
Occasionally they are fo…

Hallucinogenic fish - Wikipedia

"Massive fungus from India is newly described species"
#India #Mushroom #Fungus

Massive fungus from India is newly described species
From the forests of northeast India’s Arunachal Pradesh state, researchers have described a new-to-science species of fungus with “exceptionally large” fruiting bodies that can hold the weight of a person. The species is named Bridgeoporus kanadii in honor of Indian mycologist Kanad Das for his contributions to Indian macrofungi. The researchers led by Arvind Parihar, […]

kegg_metabolic: Metabolic networks from KEGG (2006)
109 metabolic networks of various species, as extracted from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database in March 2006. Nodes are substances involved in enzymatic reactions present in the organism, and edges represent reactant-product pairs as extracted from the KEGG ligand database and matched against the present enzymes.
This network has 1654 nodes and 4890 edges.
Tags: Biological, Metabolic, Unweighted…

kegg_metabolic: Metabolic networks from KEGG (2006)
109 metabolic networks of various species, as extracted from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database in March 2006. Nodes are substances involved in enzymatic reactions present in the organism, and edges represent reactant-product pairs as extracted from the KEGG ligand database and matched against the present enzymes.
This network has 1746 nodes and 5078 edges.
Tags: Biological, Metabolic, Unweighted…

foodweb_little_rock: Little Rock Lake food web (1991)
A food web among the species found in Little Rock Lake in Wisconsin. Nodes are taxa (like species), either autotrophs, herbivores, carnivores or decomposers. Edges represent feeding (nutrient transfer) of one taxon on another.
This network has 183 nodes and 2494 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted

Say No to China’s Cruel New “Monkey Business” #AnimalRights

New Report on U.S. Pet Trade Reveals Harm to Global Wildlife, Imperiled Species https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/new-report-on-us-pet-trade-reveals-harm-to-global-wildlife-imperiled-…

New Report on U.S. Pet Trade Reveals Harm to Global Wildlife, Imperiled Species
Center for Biological Diversity: 27 Million Wild Animals Imported for Pet Market Each Year

nematode_mammal: Global nematode–mammal interactions (2018)
A global interaction web of interactions between nematodes and their host mammal species, extracted from the helminthR package and dataset. Nodes are annotated with species-level information.
This network has 30516 nodes and 146683 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

An 8-year study of plants and pollinators in a Mediterranean community in southern Spain shows they're all flowering and active earlier as climate warms, but also a little less likely to overlap with interacting species
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70046

"Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence"
#Atlanic #Parrots #Animals

Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence
Twenty brilliantly colored red-browed amazons took flight over a reserve holding one of the few remaining intact swaths of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The green-and-red parrots had been missing from Alagoas state for generations. In January 2025, the birds returned home. Researchers say releasing the red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha) will help the species rebound and […]

Animals are developing the same chronic diseases as humans #animals

Animals are developing the same chronic diseases as humans
Across the planet, animals are increasingly suffering from chronic illnesses once seen only in humans. Cats, dogs, cows, and even marine life are facing rising rates of cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and obesity — diseases tied to the same factors affecting people: genetics, pollution, poor nutrition, and stress. A new study led by scientists at the Agricultural University of Athens proposes a unified model linking these conditions across species.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 86 nodes and 353 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

nematode_mammal: Global nematode–mammal interactions (2018)
A global interaction web of interactions between nematodes and their host mammal species, extracted from the helminthR package and dataset. Nodes are annotated with species-level information.
This network has 30516 nodes and 146683 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

"Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence"
#Animals #Parrots #Birds

Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence
Twenty brilliantly colored red-browed amazons took flight over a reserve holding one of the few remaining intact swaths of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The green-and-red parrots had been missing from Alagoas state for generations. In January 2025, the birds returned home. Researchers say releasing the red-browed amazons (Amazona rhodocorytha) will help the species rebound and […]

Cuddling capybaras and ogling otters: the problem with animal cafes in Asia https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/27/global-pet-trade-capybaras-bangkok-cafe-animal-cafes-exotic-endangered-species-aoe<…

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 543 nodes and 1491 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/25/animal-fungi-lichen-species-at-risk-wales-report

nematode_mammal: Global nematode–mammal interactions (2018)
A global interaction web of interactions between nematodes and their host mammal species, extracted from the helminthR package and dataset. Nodes are annotated with species-level information.
This network has 30516 nodes and 146683 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

plant_pol_vazquez: Vazquez & Simberloff plant-pollinator webs
Eight bipartite networks of plants and pollinators, from the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surrounding areas in Rio Negro, Argentina, from September 1999 to Feburary 2000. Edge weights represent the frequency of species interaction, and there is a common set of vertices across all eight webs.
This network has 144 nodes and 36 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted, Multilayer

"100,000 New Jobs Will Clean Up the Coastline and Protect Species from Plastic, Overdevelopment"
#India #Plastic #Plastics

100,000 New Jobs Will Clean Up the Coastline and Protect Species from Plastic, Overdevelopment
250 million people depend on coastal areas for their homes and livelihoods in sectors like fisheries, transport, and tourism.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 971 nodes and 4170 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

"How an invasion of purple flowers made Iceland an Instagram paradise – and caused a biodiversity crisis"
#Iceland #Environment #Biodiversity

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 58 nodes and 117 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 148 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

"Study warns up to a quarter of Philippine vertebrates risk extinction"
#Phillippines #Animals

Study warns up to a quarter of Philippine vertebrates risk extinction
The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of its unique land-dwelling vertebrate species unless urgent conservation action is taken, according to a new study. In a paper published in Science of The Total Environment, researchers assessed 1,294 species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. […]

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 69 nodes and 187 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

"‘A mythical place’: how a Melbourne sewage farm became a haven for 300 species of birds"
#Australia #Birds #Animals

nematode_mammal: Global nematode–mammal interactions (2018)
A global interaction web of interactions between nematodes and their host mammal species, extracted from the helminthR package and dataset. Nodes are annotated with species-level information.
This network has 30516 nodes and 146683 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

foodweb_little_rock: Little Rock Lake food web (1991)
A food web among the species found in Little Rock Lake in Wisconsin. Nodes are taxa (like species), either autotrophs, herbivores, carnivores or decomposers. Edges represent feeding (nutrient transfer) of one taxon on another.
This network has 183 nodes and 2494 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted

foodweb_little_rock: Little Rock Lake food web (1991)
A food web among the species found in Little Rock Lake in Wisconsin. Nodes are taxa (like species), either autotrophs, herbivores, carnivores or decomposers. Edges represent feeding (nutrient transfer) of one taxon on another.
This network has 183 nodes and 2494 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 85 nodes and 227 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted

nematode_mammal: Global nematode–mammal interactions (2018)
A global interaction web of interactions between nematodes and their host mammal species, extracted from the helminthR package and dataset. Nodes are annotated with species-level information.
This network has 30516 nodes and 146683 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted

nematode_mammal: Global nematode–mammal interactions (2018)
A global interaction web of interactions between nematodes and their host mammal species, extracted from the helminthR package and dataset. Nodes are annotated with species-level information.
This network has 30516 nodes and 146683 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

nematode_mammal: Global nematode–mammal interactions (2018)
A global interaction web of interactions between nematodes and their host mammal species, extracted from the helminthR package and dataset. Nodes are annotated with species-level information.
This network has 30516 nodes and 146683 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata