According to an international team of biologists, an Asian elephant named Koshik can imitate human speech.
This image shows Dr Angela Stoeger and Dr Daniel...
A new study led by Monash University’s Dr Kaspar Delhey has provided new insights into why some birds of the Maluridae family are radiantly blue.
Birds...
An international team of scientists using the European Photon Imaging Camera aboard ESA’s X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton has snapped a stunning new...
Dr Rogério Bertani, a tarantula specialist with the Instituto Butantan in Sao Paulo, has reported the discovery of nine species of tree-dwelling tarantulas.
Female...
The elusive West African Seahorse, Hippocampus algiricus, has been filmed for the first time off the coast of Senegal by Imperial College London’s student...
Australian National University biologists have found a new species of skink hidden among the sand dunes of Western Australia’s coastline.
The Coastal...
A multinational team of astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured...
A new genus of ferns found in Central and South America, Mexico, Arizona and Texas, has been named for Lady Gaga, an American singer and songwriter.
Lady...
Researchers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego have discovered that white whales can imitate the voices of humans.
The beluga or white...
A team of biologists has discovered a new species of bubble-nesting fighting fish in Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand.
Male B. mahachaiensis displaying...
European astronomers using HARPS instrument on the 3.6-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have discovered an exoplanet with about the...
A coral specialist from the Netherlands has reported the discovery of a new coral species that lives on the ceilings of caves in Indo-Pacific coral reefs.
This...
A team of researchers from three U.S. universities has suggested that the most likely source of the water locked inside lunar soils is the constant stream...
Yale researchers have discovered that a rocky super-Earth orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet.
This illustration shows the interior of 55 Cancri...
Scientists, using data from a high-resolution spectrometer aboard ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft, have discovered a surprisingly cold layer high in Venusian...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4183.
NGC 4183 is a spiral galaxy little smaller than the Milky...
With a bulbous body and spiky scales, a shaggy lure dangling from its head, and foot-like fins that it uses to walk along the seafloor, the deep-sea anglerfish...
According to a team of researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, mechanisms learned from the early phase of limb...
An international team of microbiologists has discovered that some gut microbes increase the absorption of dietary fats, allowing the host organism to extract...
A study led by Dr Christopher Karpowitz of Brigham Young University shows that having a seat at the table is very different than having a voice, for women.
Scientists...
