Rhino horns are a unique structure. They lack a bony core and, like hair, nails, and hooves, are a derivative of skin composed of keratin. The horn is formed from numerous keratin tubes (filaments) embedded in a keratin matrix.
Molecular genetic analysis showed that the discovered population is most closely related to the European strains and differs significantly from the North American strains.
The best thing a person can do when they meet a leveret in nature is to pass by. Its mother will definitely return and feed her child. If the animal is injured, only animal rehabilitation specialists can help it.
The IEE RAS team sincerely congratulates Lyudmila Borisovna on her 70th birthday! We wish her good health, success in scientific and educational activities!
The IEE RAS team wholeheartedly congratulates Sergei Valerievich on his 55th birthday, wishes him good health, success in scientific and administrative activities, happiness and harmony!
During the expedition, the staff collected soil samples in cracks on the slope of the southern exposure, where high humidity and abundant leaf litter create ideal conditions for soil fauna.
The monograph "Analytical Catalogue of Freshwater and Brackish-Water Mollusks of Russia and Adjacent Countries" is available for reading and downloading on the IEE RAS website.
One of the camera traps, installed in a typical leopard biotope - a broad-leaved forest of oak, hornbeam and other species with glades partially overgrown with rose hips, filmed Khosta at dusk, the usual time of predator activity.
Work on verifying habitat types in this region has been ongoing since 2023 and continues a series of studies previously conducted in the Lesser Khingan.
The task was not an easy one - to confirm the habitation (and, possibly, the origin) of a number of cryobiont (living in the cold) animal species, still considered Arctic, in the mountains of Southern Siberia.
The conference is scheduled for December 4-5, 2025. It will be held at the IEE RAS Conference Hall (Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 33). Participation will be conducted in person and remotely (via videoconference). The working languages of the conference are Russian and English.
October 6 marked the start of the new season of the popular science competition "Science. Territory of Heroes" for schoolchildren and students aged 10 to 25. The competition is supported by Russian National Projects and is part of the "Science of Winning" initiative of the Decade of Science and Technology.
On Thursday, October 2, at 3:00 PM, the V.N. Sukachev Laboratory of Biogeocenology and the Laboratory of Ecological and Climatic Research will hold an interlaboratory colloquium in the conference hall of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Leninsky Prospekt, 33) to discuss the pre-defense of the doctoral dissertation of Andrey Fedorovich Osipov (Institute of Biology, Komi Science Center, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
The V.E. Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences will hold a conference with international participation “Mammals in a Changing World: Current Problems of Theriology” (XII Congress of the V.E. Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences) from February 2 to 6, 2026, in Moscow, at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEE RAS).
Registration is open for events that will take place at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEE RAS) on Friday, October 10, as part of the NAUKA 0+ festival.