Three Thismia malipoensis flowers found in the Laoshan Provincial Nature Reserve in Malipo county, Yunnan province, in 2019. CHINA DAILY After further study through collaboration with other researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden under the CAS, they realized that the plant was a new species of Thismia. On Feb 28, the researchers from KIB and XTBG described the new …
Ya Jidong takes photos of Thismia malipoensis in the nature reserve in 2019. CHINA DAILY On Aug 13, 2019, Ya Jidong, a botanist from the Kunming Institute of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his colleagues walked into a patch of wet evergreen, broad-leaved forest in a karst valley in the Laoshan Provincial Nature Reserve in Malipo county, …
Christmas beetles used to be a festive staple, but their declining numbers have sounded a warning that something is not quite right. Photo shows Close up of insects in a museum collection Scientists are concerned about changes in the world's insect populations. Machine meets flower Changing insect populations have sparked new attempts to use technology to help mitigate the problem. …
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “The result is several species that are often almost indistinguishable from one another.” Meanwhile, San Francisco Bay Area high school students Harper Forbes and Prakrit Jain worked with Lauren Esposito, curator of arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences, to discover two new species of scorpions. “Mapping the biodiversity of a given …
The famous pink cherry blossoms of Kyoto reached full bloom this year on March 26, the earliest date in the 12 centuries since records began, according to a Japanese university. The earlier flowering indicates climate change, said Yasuyuki Aono, a professor of environmental science at Osaka Prefectural University, who has compiled a database of records of the full blooms over …