Biology News

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...

An international team of ornithologists has discovered the breeding area for the extremely rare bird Black-throated blue robin (Luscinia obscura) in Shaanxi...

A U.S. researcher has discovered the world’s smallest frogs in forests of southeastern Papua New Guinea. The study by Fred Kraus from the Bishop Museum,...

An international team of researchers has revealed the first evidence of animals advertising their homes to potential mates. Researchers from University...

Researchers from Université de La Réunion, Réunion, have found that Barau’s petrels synchronize their migration with the full Moon when travel...

US researchers found that Kirtland’s warblers like to live in young forests and forests that have been on fire, stated in a press release from NASA’s...

Evolutionary biologists from University of Michigan found that paper wasps have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used...

The Zooniverse team at Oxford University and Scientific American have launched the whale-song project, called Whale FM,  to involve curious citizen scientists....

Researchers used Alaskan huskies to demonstrate the serious health risks posed by contaminants, such as mercury, in the subsistence diets that both indigenous...

Japanese researchers have discovered a hitherto unknown population of coelacanths, a fish species known as a living fossil, off southeast Africa, according...

Scientists at Harvard University have created a material that repels just about any type of liquid, including blood and oil, and does so even under harsh...

Scientists have found that larger groups of great and blue tits are better at solving problems than smaller ones, according to a press release of Oxford...