Biology News

It has not been clear how salt halts the growth of the plant-root system, until now. According to an international study published in the journal Plant...

A new study in owl monkeys (Aotus azarai) reveals that, when an owl monkey pair is severed by an intruding individual, the mate who takes up with a new...

Dr Tina Šantl Temkiv and colleagues from Aarhus University, Denmark, have completed the first ever inventory of microbes and soil chemicals in a storm...

An international team of biologists led by Dr Marie Dacke of Lund University, Sweden, has discovered that African dung beetles (Scarabaeus satyrus) use...

A team of British researchers has discovered that some bacteria are able to change the make-up of supporting cells within the nerve system, called Schwann...

British scientists have made a surprising discovery after studying how tadpoles of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) and the Western clawed frog...

An international team of amphibian biologists led by Dr Jodi Rowley of the Australian Museum in Sydney has discovered a new species of flying frog near...

An international team of zoologists has discovered a gorgeous new species of lizard in southern Vietnam. Male Calotes bachae. Due to their shining blue...

Biologists have found evidence suggesting that the western long-beaked echidna, Zaglossus bruijnii, thought to have gone extinct in Australia thousands...

Scientists from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Institute of Biology Leiden, the Netherlands, have found two new species of cichlid fish in Lake...

A team of British and Chinese biologists has discovered three new species of nettles in China, one in a cave and another two in deep gorges. Pilea cavernicola...

Meet the amazing, beautiful and weird mammals, birds, insects, fishes, arthropods, sponges, amphibians and crustaceans discovered in 2012. Lesula monkey...

A team of biologists from the University of Vigo, Spain, and the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park in Cuba, has identified two new species of Caribbean...

British scientists have identified for the first time a particular ‘secondary microflora component’ that helps give blue cheese its distinctive aroma. Blue...

European scientists have identified in mice a previously unknown group of brain nerve cells, or neurons, that regulate cardiovascular functions such as...

Australian biologists have discovered two new species of lizards – the Elegant Rainbow Skink (Carlia decora) and the Orange-flanked Rainbow Skink...

U.S. biologists have discovered a new species of slow loris in the jungles of Borneo. This is the Kayan loris (Ch’ien Lee / wildborneo.com.my) Slow...

Scientists led by Prof Sebastian Jessberger of the University of Zurich’s Brain Research Institute, Switzerland, have discovered that neural stem cells...

Entomologists have described a new species of skipper butterfly from Jamaica. Troyus turneri, a new species of skipper butterfly from Jamaica (Jeff Gage...