Scientists are using isotopes to answer a surprising variety of questions about the world, according to University of ...

The bones come from owl pellets that are regularly examined as part of a research project at the Preserve.(Jim Smith/Courtesy) What’s on the menu for owls? Usually, deer and house mice with a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. State wildlife officials are asking “backyard biologists” to help ...

How’s this for pest control? At the location of a well-known rodent remover were found the remains of 1,987 field mice, 656 house mice and 210 rats. As if those numbers weren’t impressive ...

Toni Morrison Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Brandi Guyer talks students through a project Nov. 1 of dissecting owl pellets, which are condensed pieces of indigestible owl meals. (Submitted) ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra discussed her own evolution as a biologist — from dissecting owl pellets as a child to running a lab at Harvard — during morning ...

KALISPELL — You have to pay your dues. That's what Mat Seidensticker told himself as he spent the day sifting through owl puke, looking for tiny skulls.

You can also look at the base of trees for owl pellets, which are oblong shaped and look like compressed hair. When you bust it open, Inside will be small bits of indigestible hair, bone ...

Scientists and schoolkids pick those pellets apart to see what owls have eaten. A lack of pellets beneath owl nests puzzled McConnell while she did her field work in the Brooks Range. That ...

Researchers found that digestion in hawks and owls can alter the results of isotopic analysis in pellets and droppings. Scientists are using isotopes to answer a surprising variety of questions ...