An international team of researchers, led by Brazilian biologist Dr Angela Sanseverino, has presented a study that shows methane from lakebeds to be present...
A study by Japanese scientists shows that singing gibbons use the same vocal techniques as soprano singers.
A pair of white-handed gibbons (Matthias Kabel...
An expedition to the mountains of the NZ South Island has added two species of forget-me-nots to the flora of the island country.
Myosotis chaffeyorum...
A study by Spanish scientists has revealed that paper wasps, Polistes dominula, advertize the size of their poison glands to potential predators.
Paper...
A team of citizen scientists from the Western Cave Conservancy in Santa Cruz, California, and arachnologists from the California Academy of Sciences has...
A multinational team of ornithologists has discovered two new species of owls in the Philippines.
The Cebu Hawk owl, left, and a pair of Camiguin Hawk...
Geologists from the University of Saskatchewan and the Geological Survey of Canada have discovered a massive meteor impact from at least 130 million years...
A citizen scientist and professional taxonomists have jointly discovered an unusual new species of green lacewing.
Female Semachrysa jade (Guek Hock Ping)
Green...
Cornell University ornithologists have discovered a colorful, fruit-eating bird with a black mask, pale belly and scarlet breast in the remote Peruvian...
Macrozamia, a genus of cycad found only in Australia, is now believed to have arrived inland far more recently than initially thought.
The MacDonnell Ranges...
A team of European researchers has discovered that strawberry extract added to skin cell cultures acts as a protector from ultraviolet rays.
Strawberries...
Dr Stephanie Bush, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rhode Island, has discovered a never-before-seen defensive strategy used by a small species...
A team of scientists from Germany, Austria and the United States, has found that elephants rely on the same mechanism that produces speech in humans –...
According to a team of scientists from the Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, large numbers of humpback whales are remaining in bays along the...
Chinese biologists have published the first photo evidence that a population of the recently discovered snub-nosed monkey, Rhinopithecus strykeri, lives...
Biologists from the National University of Singapore have identified a new deep-water species of box crab.
Calappa karenae (Roy Kropp / Zootaxa / Magnolia...
A new study, which examines how dolphins might process their sonar signals, could provide a new system for man-made sonar to detect targets, such as sea...
In an ongoing study in Costa Rica, wildlife biologists are exploring the ecology of two species of sloths in a rapidly changing environment.
Three-toed-sloth,...
Biologist Dr Mario Vallejo-Marín from the University of Stirling has found a new species of monkey flower, created by the union of two foreign plant species,...
German researchers have succeeded in proving the presence of elemental fluorine in a mineral called antozonite.
The most reactive chemical element, fluorine,...
