Biology News

An international team of researchers has found that cuttlefish have the most acute polarization vision yet found in any animal by showing them movies on...

A Swedish researcher has identified a new species of cichlid fish in the Xingu river drainage in Brazil. An adult male of Krobia xinguensis (Erik Åhlander) Cichlids...

A team of scientists from the Institute of Cell Biophysics and the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy...

A Spanish-Russian team of scientists has discovered four new species of arthropods in a cave in the region of Abkhazia near the Black Sea. One of these...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of sea snake in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia. Bryan Fry with Hydrophis donaldii A paper,...

Dr. William Smith-Vaniz of the University of Florida and Dr. Gerald Allen of the Western Australian Museum have discovered a new species of diminutive...

Researchers from the Center of Astrobiology of INTA-CSIC in Spain and the Catholic University of the North in Chile have discovered an ‘oasis’...

Are you curious whether your dog completely understands what you say? The answer is in a study by Brazilian researchers, published online in the journal...

An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Frank Glaw of the Zoological State Collection of Munich in Germany, has discovered four new species of...

A team of researchers from the Queen Mary University of London, UK, has discovered that bumblebees can use cues from their rivals the honeybees to learn...

A team of researchers has discovered a new species of bent-toed gecko on the East Montalivet Island off the north coast of the Kimberley region in Western...

There have been many hypotheses why zebra have stripes, including predator confusion, crypsis or thermoregulation, but the correct answer was unknown –...

A team of Japanese researchers has successfully demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification. Carrion beetles:...

A team of biologists has discovered a new remarkable species of Andean semiaquatic lizard in southern Peru. An adult male Potamites montanicola (Germán...

An international team of researchers has for the first time studied the mechanism of iridescence in the hairs of golden moles. The iridescence is widespread...

A team of researchers from the Monash Institute of Medical Research, Australia, has produced embryonic stem-like cells from the tissue of snow leopard. It...

An international team of researchers has rediscovered the extremely rare primate Miller’s Grizzled Langur, a species which was believed to be extinct...

A team of biologists has discovered two new species of frogs in New Guinea, one of which breaks the record for the world’s tiniest known vertebrate. The...

An international team of researchers has discovered a remarkable new species of bush viper in Tanzania, East Africa. Matilda’s horned viper (Tim Davenport...