Sofia Quaglia

Italy

Award-winning freelance journalist covering all things science, nature and how we talk about them. Work in @nytimes @natgeo @guardian @newscientist

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First evidence of ancient birds nesting above the Arctic circle

1 month ago | newscientist.com | Sofia Quaglia

Life Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than previously thought Newly discovered bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds have been breeding and nesting in the Arctic for at least 73 million years. â€śWhich is kind of crazy, because it’s not easy to live in the Arctic and have newborn babies up there,â€ť says study author Lauren Wilson at Princeton University.
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1 month ago | wyborcza.pl | Sofia Quaglia
Capuchin monkeys are stealing howler monkey babies in weird fad

1 month ago | newscientist.com | Sofia Quaglia

Capuchin monkeys on a remote Panamanian island are abducting babies from howler monkey families, in a first-of-its-kind trend. The wild population of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus imitator) living on Jicarón Island has been monitored with 86 motion cameras since 2017 to capture their sophisticated use of stone tools to crack open hard fruits, nuts and shellfish.
Scars from the world’s first deep sea mining test 50 years on

1 month ago | pina.com.fj | Sofia Quaglia

President Donald Trump is trying to fast track new deep sea mining efforts, but half a century after the world’s first deep sea mining tests picked mineral-rich nodules from the seafloor off the U.S east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal. By Sofia QuagliaPlunging to the ocean’s abyss on the Blake Plateau, a deep-sea mountain range off the coast of North Carolina, is an otherworldly experience. It’s like no other ocean bed that microbiologist Samantha Joye has ever visited.
Scars from the world's first deep sea mining test 50 years on

1 month ago | bbc.com | Sofia Quaglia

Scars from the world's first deep sea mining test 50 years onUSGSHalf a century after the world's first deep sea mining tests picked nodules from the seafloor off the US east coast, the damage has barely begun to heal. Plunging to the ocean's abyss on the Blake Plateau, a deep-sea mountain range off the coast of North Carolina, is an otherworldly experience. It's like no other ocean bed that microbiologist Samantha Joye has ever visited.
Scars from the world's first deep sea mining test 50 years on

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Sofia Quaglia

3 hours agoEngineer, pioneer, businesswoman, pilot, mother and rumoured spy - Monica Maurice wore many hats throughout her remarkable life. For nearly four decades, she ran Wolf Safety Lamp Company in Sheffield and played a key role in making the work of thousands of miners safer with innovative …
What Kind of Seafood Is Sustainable?

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Sofia Quaglia

Ask NYT ClimateWe asked the experts how to make smart choices at the fish counter, for your health and for the environment. Credit... Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Shutterstock Fish and seafood can be a more environmentally friendly protein choice than other animal foods like beef, pork, and chicken. But you need to choose carefully. Not all fish are sustainable.
First ever confirmed image of a colossal squid in the deep ocean

2 months ago | newscientist.com | Sofia Quaglia

A colossal squid â€” the largest invertebrate on the planet â€” has been filmed alive in its wild habitat for the first time. For decades, the Kraken-like colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) was more myth than reality: scientists had only a vague sense of its appearance from fragments of its remains found in the stomachs of the whales that eat the molluscs. In fact, it was through those remains that the species was officially described by zoologists in 1925.
Nieuwe kijk op fossielen wijst erop dat dinosaurussen floreerden voordat de planetoïde insloeg

2 months ago | newscientist.nl | Sofia Quaglia

Het aantal dinosaurussen was mogelijk stabiel voor de inslag van de planetoïde. Dit gaat in tegen eerdere aanwijzingen uit fossielen die erop wezen dat de dinosaurussoorten al afnamen. De populaties van dinosaurussen gingen waarschijnlijk niet achteruit in de periode vlak voordat een planetoïde ze allemaal wegvaagde. In plaats daarvan zijn er misschien simpelweg weinig fossielen uit die periode. Daarop wijst nieuw onderzoek.
Dinosaurs’ apparent decline before asteroid due to bad fossil records

2 months ago | newscientist.com | Sofia Quaglia

Life The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less diverse Dinosaurs likely weren’t declining before an asteroid wiped them all out; instead, there may just be limited fossils from that time period, according to a new study. It has been hotly debated whether dinosaur populations were thriving or dwindling when a huge asteroid slammed into the planet about 66 million years ago.