Biology News

An international team of entomologists has described a new, bizarre species of wasp that rides on the back of damselflies before laying eggs inside damselfly...

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...

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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,...