Posts by SMCCadmin (SMCCadmin)

Genetic analysis reveals that the calling western toad is a distinct species from other western toads and is found only in Alberta. Photo credit: credit: Jayna Bergman, University of Ottawa

July 7, 2026 | SMCC Heads Up

Sea ice success | All-Canuck toad | Stressed, fry-ed | Tidal beaver | Caribou protection | Boreal lag | Bountiful bugs | July 7, 2026 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>

photo of tree swallow in flight approaching a nest box. Credit: Photo: Sherri and Brock Fenton

June 23, 2026 | SMCC Heads Up

Heatwave fire | BC whale #s | City coyotes | Shrinking swallows | Elk butts | Old, cold Canada | Sitting fails | June 23, 2026 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>

Photo: A shared grave of two half-sisters and an unrelated boy buried at the same time whose remains contained plague DNA; credit: Vladimiri Bazaliiskii

June 16, 2026 | SMCC Heads Up

Relocated frogs, snakes | Loaded icebergs | Tofino tsunamis | Ailing bogs | Sick oysters | Kelp loss | Earliest plague | June 16, 2026 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>

Artist’s version of Pleistocene Yukon, showing Arctic ground squirrels within the mammoth-steppe ecosystem; credit: Mercedes Minck/Hakai Institute

June 9, 2026 | SMCC Heads Up

Fossil DNA | Vulture numbers | Quebec fir | Climate keys | Social fish brain | Moody rivers | Better GLP | Ocean fit | June 9, 2026 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>

A ladybug approaches a warty birch caterpillar (enlarged in the inset top left) on a birch leaf; credit: Emilie Mauduit

June 2, 2026 | SMCC Heads Up

Low-nitrate Arctic | Good-vibration larvae | Living zombie tissue | Happy baseball elbows | Lyin’ kids | June 2, 2026 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>

Image: sketch in red ochre of a New France settlement with two figures in period dress next to a cart track, after an engraving by Legrand; credit: anonymous, Musée Carnavalet, Musées de Paris, CC0

May 26, 2026 | SMCC Heads Up

Tick deterrent | Western hantavirus | Chemical salmon soup | Vitamin D breaks | Jumping cancer gene | Risky, wise kids | May 26, 2026 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>

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