Biology News

Sep 12, 2025 by News Staff

New research provides a comprehensive look into how wild octopuses use their arms in natural habitats. By analyzing arm movements across diverse environments, this is the first study to relate arm movements to whole animal behaviors in complex, real-world settings. The findings reveal that every arm is capable of performing all action types; however, there was a clear pattern of arm partitioning: front arms mainly use movements to aid in exploration,...

Sep 11, 2025 by News Staff

Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva in Spain have sequenced the genome of a female Atlas blue butterfly...

Sep 9, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Marine biologists have described three new species of deep-sea snailfishes in the family Liparidae from the eastern abyssal Pacific (depths 3,268 to 4,119...

Sep 8, 2025 by News Staff

Named Bettongia haoucharae, the newly-discovered species of woylie is already likely extinct, says a team of researchers from Curtin University, the Western...

Sep 4, 2025 by News Staff

In a new study, scientists analyzed ancient microbial DNA from 483 mammoth remains spanning over 1 million years, including 440 newly-sequenced and unpublished...

Sep 1, 2025 by News Staff

Sheet-web spiders Psechrus clavis have been known to use their body color and webs as visual cues to deceptively lure and immediately consume insects....

Aug 26, 2025 by News Staff

The atmosphere of Earth during the Mesozoic era, between 252 and 66 million years ago, contained far more carbon dioxide than it does today and total photosynthesis...

Aug 19, 2025 by News Staff

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao) bean fermentation is a spontaneous process involving interactions between various factors that contribute to the final flavors...

Aug 18, 2025 by Natali Anderson

First discovered in 1997 and described as a new species two years later, the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis) is one of two living species...

Aug 18, 2025 by News Staff

Ornithologists from the University of Tokyo have observed excretions of streaked shearwaters (Calonectris leucomelas) in the open ocean using belly-mounted...

Aug 12, 2025 by News Staff

Textbooks often portray primates as originating, evolving, and dispersing exclusively within warm tropical forests. This tends to come from fossil evidence...

Aug 7, 2025 by News Staff

Parrots in captivity have been reported to show dance behavior in response to music, which may involve complex cognitive processes including imitation,...

Aug 5, 2025 by News Staff

Interbreeding between tomato plants and potato-like species from South America about 8-9 million years ago gave rise to the modern-day potato (Solanum...

Aug 4, 2025 by News Staff

Two new studies by University of Utah researchers provide clues on how to unlock these hibernating abilities, opening the door to someday developing treatments...

Aug 1, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Australian entomologists have described a spectacular new species of the stick insect genus Acrophylla from two female specimens as well as eggs. Holotype...

Jul 29, 2025 by News Staff

The central Congo Basin contains the world’s most extensive tropical peatland complex, spanning 16.7 million hectares. Until now, radiocarbon dating...

Jul 24, 2025 by News Staff

Scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society have documented a remarkable diversity of wildlife visiting the artificial watering holes in Guatemala’s...

Jul 22, 2025 by News Staff

Marine scientists have identified a new species of the stingray genus Neotrygon living in Fijian waters. Live coloration of Neotrygon romeoi from around...

Jul 15, 2025 by News Staff

Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) spend around 10 min per day on the ground, but this ground-time is associated with two-thirds of recorded koala deaths,...

Jul 15, 2025 by News Staff

Using deep learning networks analyzing DNA methylation patterns, scientists at Hebrew University achieved chronological age (defined as the amount of time...