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...
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University have discovered a possible dwarf protogalaxy, and another dwarf galaxy, in the constellation Ursa Major.
Sloan...
An international team of zoologists has discovered a gorgeous new species of lizard in southern Vietnam.
Male Calotes bachae. Due to their shining blue...
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered what may be the most distant Type Ia supernova ever found.
Supernova...
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...
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...
Entomologists have described a new species of skipper butterfly from Jamaica.
Troyus turneri, a new species of skipper butterfly from Jamaica (Jeff Gage...
Biologists from the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, have found two new species of encrusting anemones, in unexpected locations.
This is Neozoanthus...
The combined uranium/thorium/helium dating of minerals from the bottom of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the United States, indicates it was largely carved...
Biologists led by Prof Christopher Tudge of American University in Washington, DC, have discovered a tiny new species of hermit crab on the barrier reef...
Scientists led by Prof Peter Doran of the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a 3,000-year-old viable community of bacteria in a dark, salty...
