Biology News

Aug 3, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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 of deep-sea squid in which the animal counter-attacks a predator and then leaves the tips of its arms attached to the predator as a distraction. Female Octopoteuthis deletron (Hoving et al / Biology Letters) “When the foot-long octopus squid Octopoteuthis deletron found deep in the northeast...

Aug 2, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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 –...

Aug 1, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

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...

Aug 1, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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...

Jul 26, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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

Jul 25, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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

Jul 20, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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...

Jul 16, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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,...

Jul 12, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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...

Jul 11, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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,...

Jul 5, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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

Jun 29, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

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...

Jun 28, 2012 by News Staff

A team of European scientists working with Bartonella bacteria has identified a new mechanism of bacterial pathogenesis. Bartonella bacterium (Ceshencam) Bacteria...

Jun 26, 2012 by News Staff

In face of what has become a precipitous slide toward extinction across the Asian continent, the vultures of Cambodia have persisted, giving conservationists...

Jun 25, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A new study has shown that parental behavior of male blue tits is determined by female ornamentation, as previously predicted by the differential allocation...

Jun 25, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Researchers at the Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, have discovered that zebrafish use social learning...

Jun 21, 2012 by Natali Anderson

The lyrebird is the reigning king of karaoke in the bird world, Australian researchers have discovered. The Superb Lyrebird, Menura novaehollandiae, in...

Jun 21, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Wall-climbing robots, bioadhesives or other sticky substances can benefit greatly from a discovery about the self-cleaning and reuse abilities of a gecko’s...

Jun 15, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Scientists have found that cougars, or American mountain lions, are re-emerging in areas of the United States, reversing 100 years of decline. Cougar cubs...

Jun 15, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Yale University have discovered that grasshoppers stressed by spiders affect the productivity...