The COVID-19 pandemic is interrupting scientific field work across North America, leaving blank spots in important data sets and making it harder to track ecological change.
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The fossa, Madagascar's largest predator, is a cat-like carnivore that eats everything from insects to lemurs. Because they are rare and elusive, scientists know very little about them, including how many there are.
Puerto Rico's Cayo Santiago Research Station has been a world-famous site for primate studies since 1938. Now scientists are working to save its staff and rhesus monkey colony after Hurricane Maria.
A team of archaeologists strived to improve the reproducibility of their results, influencing their choices in the field, in the lab and during data analysis.
Surveying the bottom of the ocean turns out to be far from easy. But there was something wonderful about seeing animals we have only read about in old books.
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
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PhD student in Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
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PhD candidate, Pennsylvania State University
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Professor of Biology, Boston University
