Biology News

Biologist Dr Robert Mesibov of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania, has discovered six new species of colorful, curiously...

A collaboration between a computer scientist and a biologist has revealed that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the...

San Diego Zoo Global researchers, collaborating with Chinese scientists, have discovered that pandas make clear and specific choices about what trees are...

Biologists at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole have explained how longfin inshore squid,...

An international team of researchers, led by Brazilian biologist Dr Angela Sanseverino, has presented a study that shows methane from lakebeds to be present...

A study by Japanese scientists shows that singing gibbons use the same vocal techniques as soprano singers. A pair of white-handed gibbons (Matthias Kabel...

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...