Articles from June 2008
The Nature Notes archive is where you'll find my past writings and natural history notes. You are currently viewing a list of articles that were published in June 2008.
New Method For Monitoring Wildlife · 28 Jun 2008
Scientists from the University of Bristol have introduced a novel method of monitoring wild animals which enables researchers to gather population data without having to capture and tag individual animals. The capture and tagging of animals can...
New Species Discovered in Cerrado Savanna · 25 Jun 2008
Scientists have discovered 14 new animal species in Brazil's Cerrado, a vast woodland-savanna ecoregion that stretches across more than 2 million square kilometers of the country's central plateau. The new species include eight fish, three reptiles, one...
The Deep Sea Origin of Stylasterid Corals · 19 Jun 2008
Scientists have discovered that a group of hard corals known as stylasterid corals first evolved in deep ocean habitats. Stylasterid corals, also known as lace corals or hydrocorals, have a rigid skeleton that is made up of...
