Biology News

Jun 23, 2025 by News Staff

Honey from Australian stingless bees, commonly referred to as sugarbag bees, has historically served as a food source. It is also a traditional remedy for ailments like itchy skin and sores among Indigenous communities in Australia. In new research, scientists evaluated the antimicrobial properties and chemical profiles of honey produced by the Australian stingless bee species: Tetragonula carbonaria, Tetragonula hockingsi, and Austroplebeia australis....

Jun 19, 2025 by News Staff

Each spring, billions of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) escape hot conditions across southeast Australia by migrating up to 1,000 km to a place that they...

Jun 18, 2025 by News Staff

Pre-contact Central and South American dogs (Canis familiaris) — all dogs preceding contact with European settlers — descended from a single...

Jun 17, 2025 by News Staff

Biofluorescence, the absorption of high-energy light and its reemission at lower energy wavelengths, is widespread across vertebrate and invertebrate lineages,...

Jun 12, 2025 by News Staff

The Tumat Puppies, two permafrost-preserved Late Pleistocene canids, have been hypothesized to have been littermates and early domesticated dogs due to...

Jun 10, 2025 by News Staff

China has long been considered one of the locations for original domestication of wild boars (Sus scrofa) but tracking the initial process has always been...

Jun 2, 2025 by News Staff

Cats (Felis catus) are companions familiar to people worldwide. Despite their popularity, few studies have investigated the genetic background of their...

May 29, 2025 by News Staff

People all around the world live with cats and cats engage in many social behaviors toward their owners. Olfaction is one of the most important sensory...

May 29, 2025 by News Staff

Daily biological functions such as sleep, heart rate and metabolism are timed by intracellular circadian clocks which exist within almost all cells throughout...

May 29, 2025 by News Staff

Flower visitors, including pollinators, produce characteristic sounds through flapping wing movements during flight. These sounds may provide key information...

May 26, 2025 by News Staff

In a new study, University of Auckland scientist Christopher Hall and his colleagues focused on neutrophils, a type of white blood cell that play a key...

May 21, 2025 by News Staff

Recognizable from the starring role in the film ‘Finding Nemo,’ the clown anemonefish (Amphiprion percula) also shrink in order to avoid social conflict,...

May 21, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Prickle-free blackberry (Rubus subgenus Rubus) canes are strongly preferred by growers due to food and worker safety concerns and damage to fruit from...

May 20, 2025 by News Staff

Elephants are fascinating animals. Despite such fascination, our knowledge of the elephant brain is limited, and neuroanatomical differences between Asian...

May 20, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Named the Carnarvon flapjack octopus (Opisthoteuthis carnarvonensis), the new species is a small (around 4 cm in diameter), gelatinous octopus with massive...

May 19, 2025 by News Staff

The newly-discovered species belong to the rare bee subgenus Austrochile (genus Megachile). They construct brood cells from resin that are stuck individually...

May 19, 2025 by News Staff

Topographical wrinkle patterns caused by prolonged human hand immersion in water are repeatable and consistent at different timepoints, according to new...

May 16, 2025 by News Staff

This mutation is located in the Rho GTPase Activating Protein 36 (Arhgap36) gene and appears to occur in no other mammal, according to a research team...

May 14, 2025 by News Staff

Primatologists have documented and analyzed both previously reported and newly observed instances of self-directed and other-directed wound care, snare...

May 13, 2025 by News Staff

New research led by the University of California, Berkeley and the Georgia Institute of Technology reveals that flamingos, far from being passive filter-feeders,...