ABSTRACT: During a series of transect legs through the pack ice of the eastern Ross Sea, aboard the RV icebreaker ‘Nathaniel B. Palmer’, we: (1) assessed the habitat chosen for moulting by emperor ...

Uca pugnax says, "On guard blasphemer!" Image from fiddlercrab.info. Everyone knows that all crabs moult. Its no secret. When you wear you skeleton on the outside, its difficult to find the room to ...

In a periodically changing environment it is important for animals to properly time the major events of their life in order to maximise their lifetime fitness. For a non-migratory bird the timing of ...

Louis Moult (right) came off the bench to score the only goal against St Mirren Ten years ago almost to the day since Louis Moult scored an overhead kick to help Wrexham draw 2-2 with Stockport County ...

People who live with pets notice that some animals moult in the spring and fall. Losing feathers or fur is unattractive, but it leads to a beautiful new coat in which to survive the winter or to ...

Xu et al. 1 interpret the juvenile Similicaudipteryx tail feathers as examples of “proximately ribbon-like pennaceous feathers” (PRPFs) that have evolved convergently in avialian confuciusornithids ...

Motherwell striker Louis Moult admitted he had been “losing sleep” over his long wait for a first goal back in claret and amber. “I’ll be honest, I’ve been losing sleep over not scoring,” Moult said. ...