Biology News

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...

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

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

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

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

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