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...
Scientists have discovered a new fossil species of bear that roamed what is now Spain in the Myocene period.
Artist’s reconstruction of Agriarctos beatrix...
An international team of researchers has found that the current distribution of cypress subfamilies reflects the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea that...
A team of biologists from Penn State University has discovered 24 new species of lizards known as skinks, all from islands in the Caribbean.
The Anguilla...
An international team of researchers has found the first evidence of a non-human species cultivating plants for use other than as food.
Spotted Bowerbird,...
An international team of researchers has revealed that polar bears evolved some 600 thousand years ago, five times earlier than previously thought.
Polar...
A team of biologists from the Papua New Guinea National Museum and the U.S. Geological Survey has discovered a new species of slender-toed gecko on Manus...
