Biology News

Mar 1, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A Swedish researcher has identified a new species of cichlid fish in the Xingu river drainage in Brazil. An adult male of Krobia xinguensis (Erik Åhlander) Cichlids are fish species belonging to the family Cichlidae, one of the most popular fish families in the fishkeeping hobby. They live in fresh and brackish waters, and can be found in Asia, Africa, Central and South America. A paper, published in the journal Zootaxa, describes the newly identified...

Feb 23, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the Institute of Cell Biophysics and the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy...

Feb 22, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A Spanish-Russian team of scientists has discovered four new species of arthropods in a cave in the region of Abkhazia near the Black Sea. One of these...

Feb 22, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of sea snake in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia. Bryan Fry with Hydrophis donaldii A paper,...

Feb 20, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Dr. William Smith-Vaniz of the University of Florida and Dr. Gerald Allen of the Western Australian Museum have discovered a new species of diminutive...

Feb 17, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers from the Center of Astrobiology of INTA-CSIC in Spain and the Catholic University of the North in Chile have discovered an ‘oasis’...

Feb 16, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Are you curious whether your dog completely understands what you say? The answer is in a study by Brazilian researchers, published online in the journal...

Feb 15, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Frank Glaw of the Zoological State Collection of Munich in Germany, has discovered four new species of...

Feb 15, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Queen Mary University of London, UK, has discovered that bumblebees can use cues from their rivals the honeybees to learn...

Feb 10, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers has discovered a new species of bent-toed gecko on the East Montalivet Island off the north coast of the Kimberley region in Western...

Feb 9, 2012 by Natali Anderson

There have been many hypotheses why zebra have stripes, including predator confusion, crypsis or thermoregulation, but the correct answer was unknown –...

Feb 7, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Japanese researchers has successfully demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification. Carrion beetles:...

Feb 3, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of biologists has discovered a new remarkable species of Andean semiaquatic lizard in southern Peru. An adult male Potamites montanicola (Germán...

Jan 31, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has for the first time studied the mechanism of iridescence in the hairs of golden moles. The iridescence is widespread...

Jan 23, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the Monash Institute of Medical Research, Australia, has produced embryonic stem-like cells from the tissue of snow leopard. It...

Jan 20, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has rediscovered the extremely rare primate Miller’s Grizzled Langur, a species which was believed to be extinct...

Jan 12, 2012 by News Staff

A team of biologists has discovered two new species of frogs in New Guinea, one of which breaks the record for the world’s tiniest known vertebrate. The...

Jan 10, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of researchers has discovered a remarkable new species of bush viper in Tanzania, East Africa. Matilda’s horned viper (Tim Davenport...

Dec 20, 2011 by Natali Anderson

An international team of ornithologists has discovered the breeding area for the extremely rare bird Black-throated blue robin (Luscinia obscura) in Shaanxi...

Dec 14, 2011 by Natali Anderson

A U.S. researcher has discovered the world’s smallest frogs in forests of southeastern Papua New Guinea. The study by Fred Kraus from the Bishop Museum,...