Biology News

Jan 29, 2020 by News Staff

Bumblebee declines have been attributed to a handful of factors, including lack of flowers. Not all flowers are used equally by bumblebees, and determining which flowers they use can aid bumblebee conservation by identifying the specific plants they need to thrive. In a new study, a team of researchers examined which flowers bumblebees select in the Plumas National Forest in the Sierra Nevada region of California; they compared which species of flowers...

Jan 28, 2020 by News Staff

A team of researchers has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of Polistes fuscatus, a species of paper wasp that has uniquely evolved visual individual...

Jan 24, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

Mitochondria are considered as the power-generating units of the cell due to their key role in energy metabolism and intercellular communication. However,...

Jan 23, 2020 by Natali Anderson

An international team of marine biologists has found that members of the genus Hemiscyllium are the ‘youngest’ — as in, the most recently evolved...

Jan 22, 2020 by News Staff

African gray parrots (Psittacus erithacus) voluntarily and spontaneously help familiar parrots to achieve a goal, without obvious immediate benefit to...

Jan 21, 2020 by Sergio Prostak

A species of many-plumed moth believed to be new to science has been discovered in South Africa. Alucita udovichenkoi, an adult male. Image credit: Kovtunovich...

Jan 21, 2020 by The Conversation

Life is pretty easy to recognize. It moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, it reproduces. Simple. In biology, researchers often use the acronym ‘MRS-GREN’...

Jan 21, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WSC), the CADIC-CONICET and Argentina’s National Parks Administration has discovered a new...

Jan 20, 2020 by News Staff

In a series of experiments, a duo of researchers from the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University has observed eight-week-old wolf puppies spontaneously...

Jan 20, 2020 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has discovered a new species of titi monkey living in the forests of Brazil. Parecis titis (Plecturocebus parecis)...

Jan 15, 2020 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers from the University of Oxford and the South Iceland Nature Research Centre has observed two Atlantic puffins (Fratercula...

Jan 14, 2020 by News Staff

In a series of experiments, a team of biologists at the University of California, San Diego studied the structure of growing colonies comprised of two...

Jan 10, 2020 by Natali Anderson

An international team of ornithologists has discovered five new species and five new subspecies of songbirds on little-explored islands off the northeastern...

Jan 9, 2020 by News Staff

A team of researchers has discovered several hundreds of new negative strand RNA viruses and at least 20 viral genera in insects. Phylogeny of negative...

Jan 6, 2020 by News Staff

The red brittle star (Ophiocoma wendtii), a relative of starfish that inhabits coral reefs from Bermuda to Brazil, first captured scientific attention...

Jan 2, 2020 by News Staff

Common mealworms, the larvae of the darkling beetle (Tenebrio molitor), can consume toxic additives in polystyrene with no ill effects; the worms can then...

Dec 31, 2019 by News Staff

The early Earth could have hosted many carbonate-rich lakes, which would have had high enough phosphorus concentrations to get life started, according...

Dec 27, 2019 by News Staff

A research team led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine scientists has identified a previously undescribed mechanism of insecticide resistance that...

Dec 24, 2019 by News Staff

Striatum, the inner part of the brain, is considered central to decision-making and the development of various addictions. In mouse models and with methods...

Dec 18, 2019 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers has found a novel retinal structure in the eyes of New World flycatchers. Named the megamitochondria-small oil droplet complex (MMOD...