Via IEEE Spectrum, a report how on underwater acoustics systems can help baby corals thrive: Sound bathing isn’t just a human wellness trend: It might be good for corals, too. Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts have developed an underwater audio system that helps coral larvae to choose their permanent

Via Yale’s e360, a look at how artificial intelligence is being called a game changer for enabling scientists and conservationists to process vast troves of data collected remotely. But some warn its use could keep biologists from getting out in the field with the animals and ecosystems they are studying. It has always been challenging

Via Audobon, a report on how – from frigatebirds and gulls to curlews and cormorants – researchers are tapping the ”Internet of Animals” to map, understand, and protect our changing world: In the late 1990s, as an ecologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Martin Wikelski guesses he drove every mile of the Prairie

Via Nautilus, a look at how crowd-sourced data on the giant sea bass suggest it’s making a rebound The giant sea bass lives up to its name—the bulky fish can stretch up to nearly 9 feet long and weigh more than 500 pounds. It has a pretty massive fan club, too: The beloved bony fish

Via BBC, an article on how AI text alerts help save snow leopards from extinction: Snow leopards cannot growl. So when we step towards one of these fierce predators, she’s purring. “Lovely,” as she’s called, was orphaned and rescued 12 years ago in Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan. After years of relying on staff to

Via Scientific American, an article on Google’s efforts to develop an LLM that could help us communicate with dolphins: Dolphins are renowned for their intelligence and social skills. These large-brained marine mammals communicate using individualized signature clicks and whistles and even seem to recognize their own “names.” Big advances in