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Artificial Intelligence is being applied to many areas of life, including forestry on the Colorado Plateau. A team at NAU is using AI models in conjunction with Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) technology.
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Dilophosaurus is probably the best-known dinosaur whose fossil remains have been found in Arizona. That’s because the 1994 blockbuster movie “Jurassic Park” made Dilophosaurus famous—or at least an imaginative version of it.
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Mangler du episoder?
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In the summer of 2023, what seemed like tiny aliens turned up at the Wupatki National Monument. A visitor told park staff that tadpoles were wriggling about in a pool of standing water that had flooded the Ancestral Puebloan ballcourt.
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What does a flower look like to a hummingbird? New research says it’s probably nothing like what humans perceive because hummingbirds can spot ordinary colors blended with ultraviolet light.
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Every spring, three species of nectar-feeding bats travel several hundred miles from Mexico into Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to reach maternity roosts where they rear their young.
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Marine reptiles called Ichthyosaurs existed millions of years ago within a vast ocean that surrounded the supercontinent known as Pangea. They had streamlined bodies adapted for swift movement in aquatic environments.
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The Species from Feces Lab at Northern Arizona University examines DNA in animal feces. The lab’s motto is "to be number one at number two.”
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Fewer than 2% of North America’s bark beetle species attack trees, but those that do have killed billions of conifers across the West over the last 30 years.
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All kinds of animals use conspicuous colors. Research from biologists at the University of Arizona found it's a quirk of evolution that started around 150 million years ago.
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The Mojave Trail was initially used by Indigenous tribes for trade and travel but later became a critical route for Spanish missionaries, American settlers and military expeditions.
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Though distinct disciplines, both paleontology and archaeology use similar technologies and methods in their work and show fascinating intersections.
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Spring mounds are found in arid regions worldwide where geological formations force groundwater to the surface. In the U.S., the feature is especially common in the mineral-rich soils of the Great Basin and Mojave Deserts.
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Arizona is home to over 1,000 volcanoes and has three active volcanic fields, the largest of which is the San Francisco Volcanic Field near Flagstaff.
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Waking on winter solstice to a hushed world of bright light, we look outside and see fresh-fallen snow.
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The original Christmas Bird Count involved 27 birders, who tallied up 90 species on Christmas Day. More than a century later, the survey continues in what may be the world’s longest-running community science project.
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The Relict Leopard Frog was once found in wetlands throughout northwest Arizona, southeast Nevada and southwest Utah. It was thought extinct until isolated populations were found in Nevada in 1991.
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When you think of armadillos, you may conjure up images of Texas and a small, armored possum-like creature, yet Arizona was once home to a gigantic armadillo species.
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High-tech may be coming to the Southwest’s rangelands with an idea called virtual fencing.
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At the heart of the Colorado Plateau sits the largest concentration of archaeological remnants in the country, known as the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.
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Jumping spiders are common on the Colorado Plateau but are also found worldwide. These daytime predators are great leapers — some can jump nearly 40 times their body length.
