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Young Bonobos Comfort Each Other Like Human Kids

Young bonobo embraces a distressed companion during postconflict consolation at the Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image credit: Zanna Clay.
Oct 15, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have discovered similarities between the emotional development of bonobos (Pan paniscus) and that of children, suggesting these apes regulate their emotions in a human-like way. Young bonobo embraces a distressed companion during postconflict consolation at the Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image credit: Zanna Clay. The scientists conducted...

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Arapaima leptosoma (adapted from Donald Stewart, Copeia 2013; background: the Meyers).

New Species of Giant Fish Arapaima Discovered in Brazil

Oct 11, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Prof Donald Stewart from Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at State University of New York has described a new species of arapaima from the...

Curcurbit beetle, shown here, the true armyworm moth and the potato aphid can predict adverse weather conditions. Image credit: Melinda Sullivan and Edward Jones, USDA APHIS.

Insects Can Predict Adverse Weather, Entomologists Say

Oct 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, insects modify calling and mating behavior in anticipation of storms. Curcurbit beetle,...

Saltuarius eximius: New Species of Leaf-Tailed Gecko Found in Australia

Oct 6, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Two Australian biologists have described a new species of leaf-tailed gecko in the genus Saltuarius. The Cape Melville Leaf-tailed Gecko with regenerated...

False killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens.

False Killer Whales Can Form Partnerships with Bottlenose Dolphins to Defend from Predation

Oct 4, 2013 by News Staff

A population of false killer whales, Pseudorca crassidens, in waters off northeastern New Zealand developed a relationship with bottlenose dolphins to...

Chaco costai, male. Image credit: Montes de Oca L, Pérez-Miles F.

Two New Spider Species Found in Uruguay

Oct 4, 2013 by News Staff

Entomologists have described two new species of the nemesiid spider genus Chaco from Rocha Province, Uruguay. Chaco costai, male. Image credit: Montes...

Deep Lake, Antarctica. Image credit: © Rob 'Angry' Cullen.

Gene-Shuffling Microbes Found in Deep Lake, Antarctica

Oct 1, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has for the first time been able to get a complete...

Doryphora paykulli female with eggs and first instar larvae under a leaf of Prestonia seemanii. Image credit: Suzanne Lanckowsky.

Some Beetles Have Maternal Instincts, New Study Says

Sep 30, 2013 by News Staff

Entomologists from Panama, Europe, Canada and Brazil have teamed up to describe in detail the different degrees of maternal instincts present within eight...

Akawaio penak. Image credit: Hernán López-Fernández.

Akawaio penak: New Species, Genus of Electric Fish Found in Guyana

Sep 27, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists from Canada, the United States, Colombia and Guyana have described a new species and genus of electric knifefish from South America. Akawaio...

An Audubon's warbler, Setophaga coronata auduboni. Image credit: David P. L. Toews.

Audubon’s Warblers May Have Borrowed DNA from Fellow Bird Species

Sep 24, 2013 by News Staff

Audubon’s warblers (Setophaga coronata auduboni) may have acquired genes from fellow migrating songbirds in order to travel greater distances, say...

Halmaheramys bokimekot. Image credit: Jon Fjeldsaa.

New Rat Species, Genus Described from Indonesia

Sep 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of scientists from Indonesia, Denmark, France and the United States has discovered a new species and genus of rodent on the Halmahera Island in...

Oreophryne cameroni from Keki Lodge, Adelbert Mts. Image credit: Fred Kraus.

Three New Frog Species Found in Papua New Guinea

Sep 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Dr Fred Kraus from the University of Michigan has described three new species of frogs in the genus Oreophryne from Papua New Guinea. Oreophryne cameroni...

Anniella pulchra. Image credit: Marlin Harms / CC BY 2.0.

Four New Species of Legless Lizards Discovered in California

Sep 20, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Two herpetologists, Dr Theodore Papenfuss of the University of California at Berkeley and Dr James Parham of California State University in Fullerton,...

This is a false-color micrograph of Pygsuia biforma. Scale bar - 2 µm. Image credit: Matthew W. Brown et al / Proc. R. Soc. B.

Pygsuia biforma: Biologists Discover New Amoeba-like Organism in Massachusetts

Sep 19, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from Canada and the United States have isolated a new unicellular anaerobic eukaryote from brackish estuarine sediment collected just below...

Three ground-warbler species from Philippines: Bicol Ground-Warbler, top, the newly discovered Sierra Madre Ground-Warbler, center, and Cordilleran Ground-Warbler. Image credit: Marco A. Pineda M. / The Condor.

Sierra Madre Ground-Warbler: New Species of Bird from Philippines

Sep 17, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of ornithologists has discovered a new species of ground-warbler on Luzon Island of the Philippine archipelago. Three ground-warbler...

The cave-dwelling snail Zospeum tholussum. Image credit: J. Bedek.

New Snail Species with Semi-Transparent Shell Discovered in Croatia

Sep 16, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Dr Alexander Weigand of the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, has described a new species of cave-dwelling snail from the Lukina Jama–Trojama cave...

Hodgson Lake (David A. Pearce et al).

Hodgson Lake: 100,000 Year Old Life Found in Antarctic Subglacial Lake

Sep 11, 2013 by Natali Anderson

British researchers have discovered evidence of diverse life forms, dating back more than 100,000 years, in sediments of a subglacial lake on the Antarctic...

The deep-sea squid Grimalditeuthis bonplandi (Hendrik J. T. Hoving et al / MBARI).

Marine Biologists Capture First Footage of Deep-Sea Squid Grimalditeuthis bonplandi

Sep 6, 2013 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has filmed for the first time the deep-sea squid Grimalditeuthis bonplandi...

Biswamoyopterus laoensis, female, ventral view (adapted from Daosavanh Sanamxay et al).

Biswamoyopterus laoensis: New Species of Flying Squirrel from Laos

Sep 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of biologists from Thailand, UK and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic has described a new species of flying squirrel in...

Brachyhypopomus bennetti, female, 8.5 inches / 21.5 cm long. Scale bar - 1 cm (Sullivan JP et al).

Two New Species of Electric Knifefishes Discovered in Central Amazon

Sep 5, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists have reported the discovery of two new species of toothed electric knifefishes that live under rafts of unrooted grasses and water hyacinth...

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