Biology News

With a bulbous body and spiky scales, a shaggy lure dangling from its head, and foot-like fins that it uses to walk along the seafloor, the deep-sea anglerfish...

An international team of microbiologists has discovered that some gut microbes increase the absorption of dietary fats, allowing the host organism to extract...

Biologists from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, have discovered a new species of snail-eater in the highlands of western Panama. Adult...

An international team of biologists has discovered a new species of monkey in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cercopithecus lomamiensis (Maurice Emetshu) The...

A new study by a multinational team of scientists supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular remnants run...

A nearly toothless shrew rat has been discovered on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia by an international group of biologists led by Dr Jacob Esselstyn...

Experts from the IUCN Species Survival Commission have identified for the first time ever 100 of the most threatened animals, plants and fungi on the planet. Eight...

Biologists have discovered that the Pollia condensata fruit does not get its blue color from pigment but instead uses structural color – a method of...

By using five years of observation on neighboring communities of chimpanzees at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia, an international team of scientists...

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...