Biology News

The giant oarfish Regalecus glesne has been caught on film in the deep waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Top: Regalecus glesne observed on February...

Biologists reporting in the open-access journal Zookeys have identified a new scorpion species from the extraordinarily biodiversity rich region of the...

Marine scientists from the Smithsonian Institution’s Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP) have discovered a beautiful new species of tiny fish in...

Scientists at the Natural History Museum, UK, have discovered that a strange knob-like ball on the wings of an extinct bird species called the Rodrigues...

A first laboratory study of the heat-loving Pompeii worm reported in the open access journal PLOS ONE has confirmed that this deep-sea creature ranks among...

Entomologists have described a new butterfly species with striking olive green eye color. Ministrymon janevicroy (Robbins RK / Glassberg J.) The new species...

University of Alberta researchers led by Dr Catherine La Farge have brought back to life 400 year old frozen mosses recovered from melting glaciers in...

A team of arachnologists from the Sichuan University and the Institute of Zoology in Beijing has discovered two new species in the spider genera Mysmena...

Biologists from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have described a new species of black bass from river systems in the southeastern...

A team of marine researchers from New Zealand has used remote operated vehicles to collect specimens of sea pen previously unknown to science. Acanthoptilum...

A novel aerobic, gram-positive bacterium that is able to thrive at minus 15 degrees Celsius  – the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial...

German entomologists Dr Bernhard Seifert from the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz and Dr Sabine Frohschammer from the University of Regensburg...

Entomologists Dr John Huber from the Canadian National Collection of Insects and Dr John Noyes from the Natural History Museum, UK, have described a new...

A team of researchers reporting in the journal PLoS ONE has detected the influenza H1N1 virus in Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris) off...

A team of biologists headed by Dr James Austin from the University of Florida in Gainesville has described a new species of green palm-pitviper from a...

Dr Serguei Triapitsyn from the University of California Riverside’s Entomology Research Museum has identified 19 new species in the mymarid wasp genus...

Australian scientists have created the most detailed atlas of the mouse brain, a development that is helping in the fight against brain disease. 3D surface...

Biologists at Murdoch University have described a new species of freshwater fish from Western Australia. The Little Pygmy Perch, Nannoperca pygmaea, is...

A new study published online in the journal mBio is the first to show that a bioluminescent bacterium known as Vibrio fischeri regulates a daily rhythm...