Biology News

Aug 2, 2013 by News Staff

Prof John Longino, an entomologist with the University of Utah, has described 33 new species of predatory ants in Central America and the Caribbean, and named about a third of them after ancient Mayan lords. This photo shows the magnified monster-like face of the ant Eurhopalothrix zipacna, named after Zipacna, a vicious, crocodile-like demon of Mayan mythology (© John T. Longino / University of Utah). In a study published in the journal Zootaxa,...

Aug 1, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Peter Jäger, a spider expert with the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, has described a new species of tropical wolf spider in...

Jul 31, 2013 by Sukant Khurana

Obaid Siddiqi (January 7th, 1932 – July 26th, 2013) recently passed away after battling injuries from a road accident. Obaid Siddiqi At 81 and still...

Jul 31, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Peruvian and U.S. ornithologists have described a new species of bird in the genus Scytalopus found on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Junin Department,...

Jul 30, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from Indonesia, Taiwan and France has described a new whipray species in the family Dasyatidae. The Fine-spotted Leopard Whipray,...

Jul 29, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists from Madagascar and Germany led by Dr Andreas Hapke of the Johannes Gutenberg University’s Institute of Anthropology have described a new,...

Jul 29, 2013 by News Staff

Arachnoscelis arachnoids, a rare species of katydid from Central Northeast of Colombia, uses elastic energy and wing movement to reach volumes greater...

Jul 26, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from Japan and the United States have shown that they can plant false memories in the brains of genetically modified mice. The team identified...

Jul 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Virologists led by Prof Jean-Michel Claverie and Dr Chantal Abergel from the Aix-Marseille Université’s Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory,...

Jul 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A large team of biologists from the United States, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium and Germany, has reported the discovery of a new shrew species...

Jul 23, 2013 by News Staff

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) can use copying of signature whistles as a way of addressing or labeling animals on an individual basis, according...

Jul 17, 2013 by News Staff

Biologists led by Dr Don Arnold and Dr Richard Roberts from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, have released an astonishing picture of...

Jul 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

U.S. entomologists have found a strange new insect on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. Female Caurinus tlagu (Sikes DS / Stockbridge J) The...

Jul 12, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists at the Yale University School of Medicine have proposed an explanation for how Salmonella Typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever, kills...

Jul 12, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Pelagic thresher sharks use tail-slaps as a hunting strategy, according to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE. Thresher shark at...

Jul 11, 2013 by News Staff

Biologist Dr Ruth Kiew of the Forest Research Institute Malaysia has described a beautiful new species of plant from the Peninsular Malaysia. Ridleyandra...

Jul 10, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Biologists have described a tiny new species of nematode from an oak forest in Fukushima province, Japan, and named it after the German theoretical physicist...

Jul 9, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists reporting in the open-access journal Zookeys have identified a diminutive new catfish species in the waters of Rio Rio Paraíba do Sul basin,...

Jul 9, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study conducted by marine biologists Dr Anders Garm from the University of Copenhagen and Dr Dan-Erik Nilsson from Lund University,...

Jul 8, 2013 by News Staff

Using DNA and RNA sequencing, an international team of researchers has revealed a surprising variety of life forms living in the subglacial Lake Vostok. Radar...