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.
On October 15–16, 2025, the Institute of Biochemical Technologies, Ecology and Pharmacy of the Vernadsky Crimean Federal University will hold a scientific conference in Simferopol dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the M. I. Globenko Zoological Museum.
On Tuesday, April 22, 2025 a meeting of the council will be held, at which the dissertation for the academic degree of candidate of biological sciences Vasily Dmitrievich Yakushov will be defended: "Dynamics of small mammal populations of the middle Yenisei taiga in connection with climate warming".
We invite you to take part in the 28th Pushchino School-Conference of Young Scientists "Biology - Science of the 21st Century", which will be held at the Federal Research Center "Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences".
The Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation announces the opening of the competition for the International UNESCO Al Fozan Prize in support of young scientists specializing in the field of natural sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics.
On Monday, April 7, 2025 at 14:00 a meeting of the council 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, forest polecat, forest marten, river otter of the Caspian-Baltic watershed within the boundaries of the Tver and Pskov regions"