Biology News

A new paper published in the journal Biology Letters describes how tail walking was learned by a single bottlenose dolphin and then copied by other dolphins...

The Fiordland penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus), the only crested penguin species breeding on the New Zealand mainland, is currently one of the least studied...

A study of Pliocene to recent bivalves and gastropods from the Western Atlantic suggests laziness might be a fruitful strategy for survival of individuals,...

A research team led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Huazhong Agricultural University has identified two new fatty acids — named Nebraskanic...

A highly endangered species of bird called the Bahama nuthatch (Sitta insularis) has been rediscovered by two international teams of ornithologists searching...

An international team of marine biologists has discovered a new species of the seahorse genus Hippocampus in the waters off southeast Japan. Hippocampus...

Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) ruffle their head feathers and blush to communicate visually, according to new research from the ZooParc de Beauval...

A team of researchers at the University of Exeter has confirmed the classic textbook example of evolution in action — a phenomenon called industrial...

Humans have a remarkable ability to detect and visually identify conspecifics on the basis of their faces, which is a crucial capacity in social interactions....

A small new study published in the Journal of Avian Biology shows that songbirds migrating from Scandinavia to Africa in the autumn occasionally fly as...

Oriental cuckoos (Cuculus optatus) vary the size of their eggs to match those of their hosts, a new study published in the Journal of Zoology has found. Meshcheryagina...

According to new research led by the University of Southern Denmark, tubular structures found inside garnets (pyrope and almandine) from Thailand are most...

The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is one of the most unusual primates on Earth famed for its large eyes, big ears and bony finger used for probing....

Two independent teams of scientists have identified a rare cell type in airway tissue — previously uncharacterized in the literature — that...

The rainbow of visible colors varies over a continuous range of wavelengths, but small songbirds called zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) break it into...

Marine biologists have shown for the first time that corals can cooperate to catch and eat stinging jellyfish which are swept against the walls by sea...

All ants are thought to be eusocial insects, with most individual ants within a colony foregoing their own reproductive potential to support an egg-laying...

A team of marine biologists has discovered a new species of deep-water dogfish shark in the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean, and named it after...

A team of scientists led by a University of Queensland biologist has discovered a new species of bandy-bandy snake on the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula...