Did you know weatherfish larvae grow temporary “external gills”? A recent study shows thyroid hormones and fats work together to fuel this transformation - highlighting how hormones drive early development in fish.
Scientists will share personal stories of their scientific research and professional challenges with schoolchildren and their parents through lectures, master classes, and interactive sessions.
The results demonstrate large-scale disturbance of forest stands and a fundamental rearrangement of the structure and functional composition of forest communities under the influence of climate change.
The exhibition featured booths from 806 manufacturers from 27 countries. The exhibition was attended by over 23,000 visitors from 65 countries and 87 regions of Russia.
In a world where it seems everything has already been discovered and studied, a true living relic lurks in the harsh deserts of Central Asia: the planet's last wild Bactrian camel.
Unusually warm December weather in Moscow changed the rhythm of life for Moscow's beavers. They had more time to prepare for winter and successfully complete their fattening period.
Forest fragmentation - the division of continuous forest tracts into separate, isolated areas - poses a serious threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functions.
The study was conducted on two adjacent sites: a former pasture that retained the features of a natural meadow, and an abandoned cropland where vegetation rapidly transitioned to a young forest.
Genetic analysis demonstrated that the discovered population was not the product of an accidental introduction, but rather represents an original genetic lineage.
Kristina Ordzhonikidze, one of the authors of the experiment and a geneticist at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke about the problem.
A new study conducted in the forests of the Tver region has shown that, under different forest management patterns, the overall abundance of soil invertebrates can remain unchanged.
The Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and the Iran National Science Foundation (INSF) are accepting applications for the second joint competition of international scientific projects to conduct fundamental and exploratory scientific research by international research teams.
The Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia has launched an information digest, “Educational Harbor.” It briefly covers the main events in science and higher education in six CIS countries: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
On Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 14:00 in the conference hall of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Leninsky Prospekt, 33) a meeting of the council 24.1.109.03 will be held, at which the dissertation for the academic degree of candidate of biological sciences Ilya Nikolaevich Tsvetkov will be defended on the topic: "Helminth fauna of the American mink, European polecat, pine marten, common otter of the Caspian-Baltic watershed within the boundaries of the Tver and Pskov regions".
The Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences is holding a conference with international participation “Mammals in a Changing World: Current Problems of Theriology” (XII Congress of the Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences) on February 2–6, 2026, in Moscow, at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEE RAS).
On Wednesday, April 9 at 14:00 in the large hall of the IEE RAS (Leninsky Prospekt, 33) an interlaboratory colloquium will be held dedicated to the presentation of the candidate's dissertation of Nikita Aleksandrovich Martynenko (Laboratory of Soil Zoology and General Entomology).