The children learned about various snake species, their habits, habitats, and role in the ecosystem. Special attention was paid to safety and rules of conduct when encountering snakes in the wild.
The method of recording ultrasounds during isolation from the mother and other pups of the litter simulated a situation in which a pup fell from the nest and screamed for adult group members to hear and return it to the nest.
The family of parasitic flies Hippoboscidae Samouelle, 1819 currently includes at least 213 species. These flies are distributed worldwide and transmit many dangerous diseases.
The Russian Science Foundation has announced the results of its competition for fundamental scientific research projects and exploratory research by small research groups.
This monograph is a continuation, a more expanded version of the book "A Brief Guide to Invertebrates of Freshwater in Central European Russia," widely known to school biology students and university students.
The expert briefed the audience on the results of the institute's recently successfully completed experiment on decomposing rice straw using soil invertebrates.
Since 2007, a large international project to reintroduce (restore) the population of a once widespread cat species, the Persian leopard, has been underway in the North Caucasus.
The role of the wolf in regulating ecological processes is difficult to overestimate. This predator is widespread throughout Russia and has a significant impact on the country's economy.
November 22 of 2025 marked the conclusion of the three-day All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference "Monitoring Wildlife in Specially Protected Natural Areas" in Moscow.
The comprehensive expedition to study the Baikal seal, a species of seal found exclusively in the waters of Lake Baikal, took place on the Ushkany Islands archipelago, the main summer rookery site for these animals.
The descendants of arctic char (typically weighing 0.6-1.5 kg) have become smaller, and in lakes such as Bolshoe Goltsovoe and Avotya, they grow to only 80-100 g.
An interview with Marina Rutovskaya, d.b.s, Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Mammal Behavior and Behavioral Ecology at the IEE RAS, and a leading expert on the desman, was published by the Nature Defenders Foundation.
We sincerely congratulate Klara Sergeevna Popova on her wonderful anniversary! We wish her good health, vitality, prosperity, and the support and love of her loved ones.
The conference is being organized by the Russian National Committee for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development/Interdepartmental National Oceanographic Commission of the Russian Federation (INOC) in collaboration with the Institute for Integrated Studies of National Marine Policy of the Russian Technical University MIREA and the Museum-Reserve "Museum of the World Ocean," with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and the Russian Ministry of Culture. The conference will be one of the official events of the UN Decade of Ocean Science and Sustainable Development.
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation announces the XII All-Russian Prize "For Loyalty to Science," one of the key events of the Decade of Science and Technology declared by the President of the Russian Federation.
Saint Petersburg State University, the Soil Science Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Subcommission of the Interregional Public Organization "Soil Organic Matter," the V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Society, and the CIS Regional Branch of the International Humic Substances Society (IHSS) invite you to participate in the VIII International Scientific Conference "Humic Substances in the Biosphere," to be held in Saint Petersburg from October 20 to 22, 2026.
From September 24-27, 2026, the Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences will host a school for young scientists, "Objects and Methods of Developmental Biology: Genomic, Molecular, and Morphogenetic Mechanisms of Development and Regeneration." The school is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the eminent embryologist D.P. Filatov (1876-1943).
On March 30-31, 2027, the 3rd All-Russian Scientific Conference dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Kamchatka Branch of the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (KamchatNIRO), will be held in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
On Tuesday, September 29, 2026, at 11:00, Council Meeting 24.1.109.02 will be held in the conference hall of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 33). Nikolai Vladimirovich Bardukov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, will defend his dissertation "Formation of the Modern Range of the Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)."