A well-preserved 6 to 4 million-year-old skull of a previously unknown species of prehistoric snow leopard from Tibet is the oldest big cat fossil ever...
Ichthyologists have discovered a new species of scalloped hammerhead shark off the South Carolina coast.
The Carolina hammerhead, Sphyrna gilberti. Image...
An international team of ornithologists led by Dr Townsend Peterson from the University of Kansas’ Biodiversity Institute has discovered a new species...
Prof Donald Stewart from Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at State University of New York has described a new species of arapaima from the...
According to a study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, insects modify calling and mating behavior in anticipation of storms.
Curcurbit beetle,...
Two Australian biologists have described a new species of leaf-tailed gecko in the genus Saltuarius.
The Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko with regenerated...
Well-preserved fossilized pollen grains found in northern Switzerland provide evidence that flowering plants may have originated in the early Triassic...
Biologists from Canada, the United States, Colombia and Guyana have described a new species and genus of electric knifefish from South America.
Akawaio...
An analysis of three-billion-year-old soils from South Africa shows that oxygen appeared in the atmosphere more than 600 million years earlier than previously...
A team of scientists from Indonesia, Denmark, France and the United States has discovered a new species and genus of rodent on the Halmahera Island in...
Dr Fred Kraus from the University of Michigan has described three new species of frogs in the genus Oreophryne from Papua New Guinea.
Oreophryne cameroni...
Two herpetologists, Dr Theodore Papenfuss of the University of California at Berkeley and Dr James Parham of California State University in Fullerton,...
Dr Alexander Weigand of the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, has described a new species of cave-dwelling snail from the Lukina Jama–Trojama cave...
British researchers have discovered evidence of diverse life forms, dating back more than 100,000 years, in sediments of a subglacial lake on the Antarctic...
Dr Gerald Allen, a research associate at the Western Australian Museum, and his colleagues from Australia have described a new species of shark from eastern...
Nile crocodiles, American alligators and other crocodilians enjoy fruits along with their normal meat-heavy diets of mammals, birds, and fish, according...
Two biologists reporting in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology say that they have documented for the first time the swimming and diving behavior...
According to Japanese scientists, pet dogs yawn contagiously when they see a person yawning, and respond more frequently to their owner’s yawns than...
