Biology News

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have found how this blood-sucking insect can survive the high-speed impact of falling raindrops. Free-flying...

British biologists have found that the tuatara, an iconic New Zealand reptile, chews its food in a way unlike any other animal on Earth. An adult of the...

Scientists from Simon Fraser University in Canada and University of Tasmania in Australia have found that sea and land cold-blooded animals differ in their...

Using camera traps, wildlife researchers have captured photographs of one of the rarest animals on Earth, the Sumatran striped rabbit. A research group...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new sensory organ in rorqual whales that coordinates...

An international team of biologists has discovered a new genus of velvet spider and named it after Lou Reed, an American rock musician and songwriter. This...

It’s quite common for a female song sparrow to stray from her breeding partner and mate with the male next door, but a new study by an international...

A new bright yellow frog species has been discovered in the mountains of western Panama by German biologists. This is a male of the new frog species, Diasporus...

University of Sydney researchers have found that platypus colonies that live on Australia’s small islands are at high risk of disease epidemics that...

Australian researchers have found that bird species with multiple plumage color forms within in the same population evolve into new species faster than...

A team of researchers from Lund University in Sweden studying the behavior of Santino the chimpanzee at Furuvik Zoo in Stockholm has found that he uses...

A team of researchers from Auburn University has discovered a new trapdoor spider species from a well-developed housing subdivision in the heart of the...

An international team of researchers has found that the current distribution of cypress subfamilies reflects the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea that...

A team of biologists from Penn State University has discovered 24 new species of lizards known as skinks, all from islands in the Caribbean. The Anguilla...

Dr. Jay Stauffer from the Penn State University and Adrianus Konings from Cichlid Press have announced the discovery of a new haplochromine cichlid fish...

An international team of researchers has found the first evidence of a non-human species cultivating plants for use other than as food. Spotted Bowerbird,...

An international team of researchers has revealed that polar bears evolved some 600 thousand years ago, five times earlier than previously thought. Polar...

A team of biologists from the Papua New Guinea National Museum and the U.S. Geological Survey has discovered a new species of slender-toed gecko on Manus...

An international team of scientists has confirmed the Tasmanian Tiger or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) had limited genetic diversity prior to its...