- Sumatra and Borneo | Animals, People and Threats | WWF
Sumatra is the world’s sixth largest island The islands’ tropical climate and diverse ecoregions have created habitats that house thousands of unique species These include critically endangered species like Sumatran tigers, all three of the world’s orangutan species, Bornean and Sumatran elephants, and Sumatran rhinos
- Underutilized plants increase biodiversity, improve food and . . .
The intake of meat, sugar-sweetened beverages, and ultraprocessed foods significantly increased in the period from 1961 to 2014 29 As reported in the 2020 State of the Food Security and Nutrition in the World, the supply of cereals and pulses is the highest in low- and middle-income countries, whereas meat, fish, oil, and sugar are more
- Natural Selection Quiz
Within the past 2 million years in Lake Malawi, over 400 species of fish have descended from a single common ancestral species Some of these species may have developed when fluctuating water levels isolated small sub-populations of the original ancestral species and prevented interbreeding
- The Global Importance of the Great Barrier Reef - Fitzroy Island
Home to over 1,500 species of fish, 400 varieties of coral, 4,000 mollusk species, 215 types of bird, and many other marine organisms like crustaceans, sea snakes, and marine mammals, the Great Barrier Reef contains some of the most biodiverse and extraordinary ecosystems on the planet
- The 7 Homo Species Close to Present Humans That Existed on . . .
Humans evolved from the family hominid (great apes) that have existed on Earth for around 20 million years Over time, different human species with different characteristics have existed on Earth, but not all species of humans have survived the journey with many of them becoming extinct The only human species left is Homo sapiens
- Meet the first gene-edited reptile: An albino lizard
“There are over 10,000 described species of reptile, and the genome of each species contains around 25,000 protein-coding genes There is a whole universe of unstudied biology in these animals
- Introduction to Human Evolution | The Smithsonian Institution . . .
Scientists also debate over how to identify and classify particular species of early humans, and about what factors influenced the evolution and extinction of each species Early humans first migrated out of Africa into Asia probably between 2 million and 1 8 million years ago
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