Biology News

An expedition to the mountains of the NZ South Island has added two species of forget-me-nots to the flora of the island country. Myosotis chaffeyorum...

A study by Spanish scientists has revealed that paper wasps, Polistes dominula, advertize the size of their poison glands to potential predators. Paper...

A team of citizen scientists from the Western Cave Conservancy in Santa Cruz, California, and arachnologists from the California Academy of Sciences has...

A multinational team of ornithologists has discovered two new species of owls in the Philippines. The Cebu Hawk owl, left, and a pair of Camiguin Hawk...

An arachnologist from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered the world’s first eyeless huntsman spider. A very special...

A citizen scientist and professional taxonomists have jointly discovered an unusual new species of green lacewing. Female Semachrysa jade (Guek Hock Ping) Green...

Cornell University ornithologists have discovered a colorful, fruit-eating bird with a black mask, pale belly and scarlet breast in the remote Peruvian...

Dr Stephanie Bush, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rhode Island, has discovered a never-before-seen defensive strategy used by a small species...

A team of scientists from Germany, Austria and the United States, has found that elephants rely on the same mechanism that produces speech in humans –...

A team of German scientists has analyzed the structure of shark teeth and human teeth. The results of their research are surprising: although the surface...

According to a team of scientists from the Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, large numbers of humpback whales are remaining in bays along the...

Chinese biologists have published the first photo evidence that a population of the recently discovered snub-nosed monkey, Rhinopithecus strykeri, lives...

Biologists from the National University of Singapore have identified a new deep-water species of box crab. Calappa karenae (Roy Kropp / Zootaxa / Magnolia...

A new study, which examines how dolphins might process their sonar signals, could provide a new system for man-made sonar to detect targets, such as sea...

In an ongoing study in Costa Rica, wildlife biologists are exploring the ecology of two species of sloths in a rapidly changing environment. Three-toed-sloth,...

Biologists have discovered a new species of coral reef crustacean and named it after Bob Marley, the late popular Jamaican singer and guitarist. A Caribbean...

Biologist Dr Mario Vallejo-Marín from the University of Stirling has found a new species of monkey flower, created by the union of two foreign plant species,...

California University scientists have discovered that tiny ‘bone-devouring worms’, known to both eat and inhabit dead whale skeletons and other...

Melanin – the pigment that colors skin, eyes and hair – could soon be the face of a new generation of bio-friendly electronic devices used in applications...