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The space agency took advantage of an optical phenomenon to gain new insights into the wind and waves of Peru's Lake Titicaca ...
Thousands of people daily drive across Bob Anthony Parkway/Spillway Road, which runs across the earthen dam at the Barnett ...
Water voles (Arvicola amphibius), often mistaken for rats, are shy little mammals that scientists call "ecosystem engineers." That means they don’t just live in their environment — they actively shape ...
Endangered water voles in Wales are being fed edible glitter in a bid to save them from extinction. Once commonly found across south Wales, water voles are now effectively extinct in all but a few ...
Photo: PTES Water voles are the largest of Britain’s voles, with a short, rounded body, a blunt muzzle, short, furry tails and small ears hidden in their thick fur – unlike brown rats, which ...
Sally photographed the water vole along the River Stour at Northbourne. The Dorset Wildlife Trust says the river-dwelling mammal is under serious threat from habitat loss and predation by the ...
Water voles like to sit and eat in the same place, so piles of nibbled grass and stems may be found by the water's edge, showing a distinctive 45 degree, angled-cut at the ends.
Water voles were thought to be extinct in the county as recently as the early 2000s. At one stage the species would have been found on "almost all rivers and waterways" but its population had ...
Some of the UK's rarest wildlife is being "torched alive" and pushed closer to extinction after weeks of intense grass fires, conservationists have warned. They include endangered birds like hen ...
Water voles are being killed by cats along the river in Stiffkey (Image: Shirley Freeman) Nature lover Martin Wells, who writes for the Local Lynx magazine, said there was "sad news" regarding the ...
Pioneering work in prairie voles identified Oxt and Avp as critical mediators of pair bonding 41, 42. Interspecific variations in the patterns of expression of the oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) and the ...