18

September

2024

An aerial survey is conducted on birds and whales

Specialists from the Northern Eurasian Anseriformes Working Group arrived in Anadyr to continue their census work using small aircraft. This is the third time the ornithologists have flown to the region.

17

September

2024

12 snow sheep released into the wild on Zavyalov Island

Employees of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution are providing scientific support for the project to capture, release and monitor the animals.

17

September

2024

Dolphin station

Andrey Abramov told about how dolphins sleep, how many kilometers they swim per day, whether they save drowning people, and why they might not like your manicure.

16

September

2024

Wet job

What could be interesting about woodlice? They are commonly disliked, and their appearance in the house can hardly please anyone. But someone devotes years to studying these creatures.

13

September

2024

Three employees of the laboratory of ecology of aquatic communities and invasions took part in an expedition to Lake Baikal as part of the school for young scientists "Baikal-Evolution-2024"

From August 16 to 26, 2024, an expedition to Lake Baikal took place as part of the Baikal-Evolution-2024 school for young scientists, organized by the Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the RAS.

13

September

2024

Eating Right Reduces the Risk of COVID-19

Scientists from the GC for Chemosensory Research have found that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19 and lead to a faster recovery for those who have contracted the virus.

05

September

2024

We congratulate Leonid M. Baskin on his 85th anniversary!

On September 4, Leonid Mironovich Baskin, a zoologist and conservationist, chief researcher at the Laboratory of Mammal Behavior and Behavioral Ecology of the IEE RAS celebrated his 85th birthday.

04

September

2024

The "supermodel of evolution" has completed its world tour and is now traveling along the Volga and the Black Sea coast of Russia

The leading scientific journal Hydrobiologia has published an article prepared by the staff of the IEE RAS in collaboration with colleagues from Belarus and a number of regions of Russia.

03

September

2024

Fish with developmental abnormalities that may be linked to climate change have been discovered in the Arctic

According to Darwin's theory of natural selection, only the most adapted living organisms can survive in the wild, since predators primarily attack weakened or sick animals or those that differ significantly.

03

September

2024

How animals prepare for the onset of cold weather

How do animals' lives change in the fall? How does hibernation differ from regular sleep? Where do birds fly away? And which animals' brains shrink in the fall?

02

September

2024

V.M. Olshansky in the issue of the Darwin Museum

Why do catfish need electric discharges? Why are they there during spawning? How to find answers to the questions "Why?"

02

September

2024

Scientists have surveyed Penzhinskaya Bay in the Shelikhov Gulf of the Sea of Okhotsk for the first time in search of rare bowhead whales

An expedition to study bowhead whales in the northern Sea of ​​Okhotsk has been successfully completed in Magadan. Among other things, scientists encounter about 15 whales.

28

August

2024

New species of marine polychaete worm avoids predators by mimicking nudibranchs

An international team of scientists has discovered a new genus and species of polychaete worms in Vietnam and Japan. This marine worm is very similar in appearance to nudibranchs, which have bright, warning colors.

28

August

2024

“Dead Lion: A Posthumous Biography of Darwin and His Ideas” is out

"The Alpina non-fiction publishing house, edited by V.S. Artamonova, a leading researcher at the IEE RAS, has published a book "Dead Lion: A Posthumous Biography of Darwin and His Ideas."

20

August

2024

Indicator of the intensity of morphogenesis in populations of large African Barbs of Ethiopia and Altai Osmans of Mongolia

It has long been obvious that the study of the biological diversity of a region is not limited to identifying only the number of species living there.

15

August

2024

An article has been published examining the impact of 700 years of Inuvialuit hunting on the beluga whale population

About 800 years ago, the ancestors of the Inuvialuit came to the Mackenzie River Delta (Northwest Territories, Canada), and beluga whales took a central place in their economy and culture.

14

August

2024

Filming of the movie "Science of Life" in the Central Forest Reserve

This year, during the spring and summer, the Central Forest Reserve hosted the filming of the movie "Science of Life" by the "Scientific Film Laboratory" studio.

14

August

2024

Diurnal rhythms of terrestrial arthropod activity in the Arctic have been studied

Scientists from the IEE RAS and the IPAE RAS conducted a study of the daily rhythms of activity of the most common and diverse Arctic terrestrial arthropods in natural conditions of constant illumination.