2015

December
- Academy of Natural Sciences Discovered Life Around the World in 2015
  
  December 14, 2015
  From elusive, rare fish to the potential key to the evolution of river-based plants, scientists from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University played a significant role in adding to the rolls of known species this year.
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September
- As Demand for African Timber Soars, Birds Pay the Ultimate Price
  
  September 08, 2015
  A new study co-authored by scientists at Drexel University reveals the devastating impact of illegal logging on bird communities in the understory layer of Ghana’s Upper Guinea rain forests, one of the world's 25 “biodiversity hotspots."
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August
- Bushmeat Trade Grows with Economic Prosperity
  
  August 03, 2015
  The bushmeat market in the city of Malabo is bustling—more so today than it was nearly two decades ago, when Gail Hearn, PhD, began what is now one of the region’s longest continuously running studies of commercial hunting activity. Hearn’s team has now published its comprehensive results of 13 years of daily monitoring bushmeat market activity.
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June
- Underground Ants Can't Take the Heat
  
  June 15, 2015
  A new Drexel study shows underground species of army ants are much less tolerant of high temperatures than their aboveground relatives—and that could mean climate change models lack a key element of how animal physiology could affect responses to changing environments.
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April
- Study of African Birds Reveals Hotbed of Malaria Parasite Diversity
  
  April 08, 2015
  A new study published this week in the journal PLOS ONE explores the scope of malaria parasite diversity in southeast African birds, and provides insight into how lifestyle characteristics of birds can influence their association with different parasite genera.
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January
- Studies of Most Endangered Chimpanzees Show Complex Evolutionary Past, Perilous Future
  
  January 21, 2015
  A Drexel-led team's complementary analyses of population genetics, geographical distribution and habitat use paint a new picture of the evolutionary past and potentially bleak future of the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee, already the most endangered chimp subspecies.
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