Biology News

Scientists from New Zealand, Ecuador, Australia and the United States have identified a new songbird family – the Mohouidae – in New Zealand. The...

Dr Gerald Allen, a research associate at the Western Australian Museum, and his colleagues from Australia have described a new species of shark from eastern...

Biologist Dr Chris Stapleton from the United Kingdom has described two new genera of African mountain bamboos. Oldeania alpina looks like a Phyllostachys...

Nile crocodiles, American alligators and other crocodilians enjoy fruits along with their normal meat-heavy diets of mammals, birds, and fish, according...

Two biologists reporting in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology say that they have documented for the first time the swimming and diving behavior...

Biologists from the United States, Ecuador and Panama have described a new species of carnivore from the cloud forests of Ecuador and Colombia, and named...

A study by entomologists from Bulgaria and Russia provides new interesting information on the life habits and the distribution of the giant water bug Lethocerus...

Spanish researchers have analyzed X-ray crystal structures of seven previously ‘resurrected’ 1 – 4 billion year old thioredoxins, small...

According to Japanese scientists, pet dogs yawn contagiously when they see a person yawning, and respond more frequently to their owner’s yawns than...

According to marine biologist Dr Jason Bruck of the University of Chicago’s Institute for Mind and Biology, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)...

An international team of entomologists has described a new, bizarre species of wasp that rides on the back of damselflies before laying eggs inside damselfly...

Prof John Longino, an entomologist with the University of Utah, has described 33 new species of predatory ants in Central America and the Caribbean, and...

Dr Peter Jäger, a spider expert with the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, has described a new species of tropical wolf spider in...

Obaid Siddiqi (January 7th, 1932 – July 26th, 2013) recently passed away after battling injuries from a road accident. Obaid Siddiqi At 81 and still...

Peruvian and U.S. ornithologists have described a new species of bird in the genus Scytalopus found on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Junin Department,...

A team of researchers from Indonesia, Taiwan and France has described a new whipray species in the family Dasyatidae. The Fine-spotted Leopard Whipray,...

Biologists from Madagascar and Germany led by Dr Andreas Hapke of the Johannes Gutenberg University’s Institute of Anthropology have described a new,...

Arachnoscelis arachnoids, a rare species of katydid from Central Northeast of Colombia, uses elastic energy and wing movement to reach volumes greater...

Scientists from Japan and the United States have shown that they can plant false memories in the brains of genetically modified mice. The team identified...