Oct 2, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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...

Sep 27, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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...

Sep 26, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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...

Sep 24, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of microbiologists has discovered that some gut microbes increase the absorption of dietary fats, allowing the host organism to extract...

Sep 19, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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...

Sep 17, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of biologists has discovered a new species of monkey in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cercopithecus lomamiensis (Maurice Emetshu) The...

Sep 13, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A nearly toothless shrew rat has been discovered on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia by an international group of biologists led by Dr Jacob Esselstyn...

Sep 11, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Experts from the IUCN Species Survival Commission have identified for the first time ever 100 of the most threatened animals, plants and fungi on the planet. Eight...

Sep 11, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Biologists have discovered that the Pollia condensata fruit does not get its blue color from pigment but instead uses structural color – a method of...

Sep 10, 2012 by Natali Anderson

By using five years of observation on neighboring communities of chimpanzees at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia, an international team of scientists...

Sep 4, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Biologist Dr Robert Mesibov of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania, has discovered six new species of colorful, curiously...

Aug 31, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A collaboration between a computer scientist and a biologist has revealed that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the...

Aug 30, 2012 by Natali Anderson

San Diego Zoo Global researchers, collaborating with Chinese scientists, have discovered that pandas make clear and specific choices about what trees are...

Aug 27, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Biologists at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole have explained how longfin inshore squid,...

Aug 27, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers, led by Brazilian biologist Dr Angela Sanseverino, has presented a study that shows methane from lakebeds to be present...

Aug 24, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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...

Aug 22, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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...

Aug 21, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A study by Spanish scientists has revealed that paper wasps, Polistes dominula, advertize the size of their poison glands to potential predators. Paper...

Aug 20, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of citizen scientists from the Western Cave Conservancy in Santa Cruz, California, and arachnologists from the California Academy of Sciences has...

Aug 18, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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...