Biology News

A team of researchers led by Dr. Graham Reynolds from the University of North Carolina Asheville has discovered a new species of non-venomous boid snake...

According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, cephalopods’ numbers have increased in the world’s oceans over the past six decades. Giant...

Taxonomy experts at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) selected the top 10 from among the estimated 18,000 new species named...

Using DNA analysis, scientists have confirmed the capture of Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) in South Florida. A Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)....

A team of scientists led by Tanja van de Ven from the University of Cape Town has found that southern yellow-billed hornbills (Tockus leucomelas) in the...

Atmospherically transported dust from the Sahara Desert, the largest desert in the world, is bringing iron and other nutrients to underwater plants in...

An international team of scientists has described a previously unknown species of wasp from South Africa and has named it Conobregma bradpitti, after the...

According to a new research, leopards have lost as much as 75% of their historic range. A leopard (Panthera pardus). Image credit: Joseph Lemeris. The...

An international team of botanists has described a new subgenus of plants and named it after the notable American ornithologist James Bond. Left: Alternanthera...

Our planet could contain roughly 1 trillion microbial species, with only 0.001% now identified, says a duo of scientists at Indiana University. This colorized...

An international team of scientists has completely sequenced the mitochondrial genome of the Hispaniolan solenodon (a venomous, insectivorous mammal that...

A new study led by Dr. Gilles Laurent from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, reveals slow-wave (SW) and rapid eye movement...

A team of entomologists has described a new species of scorpion — Pseudouroctonus maidu — from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in northeastern...

Marine scientists have found that biofluorescent catsharks, such as the swell shark from the eastern Pacific and the chain catshark from the western Atlantic,...

A new reef system has been found at the mouth of the Amazon River by an international group of researchers from Brazil and the United States. The Amazon...

New research published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment documents animal species prevalent in the human-free Chernobyl Exclusion...

An international team of entomologists has described a new species of dragonfly from Annamense Mountains in eastern Cambodia and southern Laos. Asiagomphus...

Three new species of the genus Microcebus (mouse lemurs) have been discovered by an international team of scientists from the German Primate Center, the...

A team of scientists led by Prof. Christine Drea of Duke University has identified a chemical compound that gives binturongs (Arctictis binturong) their...