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,...
A new study has shown that parental behavior of male blue tits is determined by female ornamentation, as previously predicted by the differential allocation...
Researchers at the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, have discovered that zebrafish use social learning...
The lyrebird is the reigning king of karaoke in the bird world, Australian researchers have discovered.
The Superb Lyrebird, Menura novaehollandiae, in...
Wall-climbing robots, bioadhesives or other sticky substances can benefit greatly from a discovery about the self-cleaning and reuse abilities of a gecko’s...
Scientists have found that cougars, or American mountain lions, are re-emerging in areas of the United States, reversing 100 years of decline.
Cougar cubs...
Dutch biologists have discovered that insects can use plants as green phones for communication with other bugs.
Ragwort plants show to act as phones that...
European biologists have discovered a new species of squat lobster in the underwater mountains facing the Galician coast, Spain.
Artist’s impression...
Researchers have discovered a massive bloom of phytoplankton beneath ice-covered Arctic waters. Until now, sea ice was thought to block sunlight and limit...
A team of researchers at University of California in Berkeley has found that cockroaches can disappear in the blink of an eye by flinging themselves at...
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have found how this blood-sucking insect can survive the high-speed impact of falling raindrops.
Free-flying...
Scientists at Monash University in Australia have found how the zebrafish heals its spinal cord after injury.
A zebrafish, Danio rerio, in an aquarium...
