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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

"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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mesopelagic fishes, inhabiting the water column in the depth range from 200 to 1000 m, play an important role in the ecosystems of the World Ocean, being an intermediate link in the food webs.