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...
For the first time, the genomes of the domesticated tomato and its wild ancestor, Solanum pimpinellifolium, have been sequenced by the Tomato Genome Consortium,...
British biologists have found that the tuatara, an iconic New Zealand reptile, chews its food in a way unlike any other animal on Earth.
An adult of the...
Using camera traps, wildlife researchers have captured photographs of one of the rarest animals on Earth, the Sumatran striped rabbit.
A research group...
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new sensory organ in rorqual whales that coordinates...
It’s quite common for a female song sparrow to stray from her breeding partner and mate with the male next door, but a new study by an international...
A new bright yellow frog species has been discovered in the mountains of western Panama by German biologists.
This is a male of the new frog species, Diasporus...
An international team of paleontologists has found that two ink sacs from 160-million-year-old giant cephalopod fossils discovered two years ago in England...
University of Sydney researchers have found that platypus colonies that live on Australia’s small islands are at high risk of disease epidemics that...
A team of researchers from Lund University in Sweden studying the behavior of Santino the chimpanzee at Furuvik Zoo in Stockholm has found that he uses...
