Biology News

A group of scientists led by Prof Marcio Pie of the Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil has described seven new species of the frog genus Brachycephalus...

According to a new study published online in the journal BMC Neuroscience, taste receptors of felines respond in a unique way to bitter compounds compared...

A tiny Australian bird, the brown thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla), mimics the hawk warning calls of neighboring bird species to protect its nest from predators...

According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, humans’ cognitive capacity for cooking is shared by chimpanzees (Pan sp.)....

A team of scientists led by Dr Andrew Baker from Queensland University of Technology has described two new species of carnivorous marsupials from Australia. The...

A new study, led by Dr Demian Chapman from Stony Brook University, documents the first known cases of parthenogenesis – the ability of sexually reproducing...

Using slow-motion video-recording and experiments, an international team of ornithologists has found that the Mexican Jays are able to ‘weigh’ peanuts...

The panther chameleon, long thought to be a single species, is actually eleven distinct species, according to a team of biologists led by Prof Michel Milinkovitch...

Male Java sparrows (Lonchura oryzivora) produce bill-click sounds along with their songs during courtship displays as well as when they sing to themselves...

In five papers published in the May 22 issue of the journal Science, marine biologists who spent 3.5 years sampling the ocean’s upper layers aboard the...

A feathered dinosaur from North and South Dakota, a species of pufferfish from Japan, a cartwheeling spider from Morocco, a ‘walking stick’ from Vietnam,...

New research reported in the Journal of Experimental Biology demonstrates that the skin of the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) possesses...

Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) actually harbor carnivore-like gut microbiota predominated by bacteria such as Escherichia/Shigella and Streptococcus,...

A group of scientists co-led by University of Pittsburgh biologists Dr Nathan Morehouse and Dr Daniel Zurek has found that spiders in the American genus...

A chemical signature recorded on otoliths (ear bones) of Chinook salmon could tell scientists where the fish lived, says a new study published in the journal...

According to a team of scientists led by Dr Amiyaal Ilany of the University of Pennsylvania, spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) prefer to have friendship...

A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows that the response of fruit flies (Drosophila sp.) to visual threats includes many essential...

A team of researchers led by Dr Nicholas Wegner of NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center has discovered a whole-body form of endothermy...

The hump-backed mahseer (Hypselobarbus mussullah) – one of the world’s most iconic freshwater fish – is on the brink of extinction, says...