Biology News

Pareledone charcoti, a shallow-water species of octopus from the Antarctic, uses an unique strategy to transport oxygen in its blood, says a new study...

An international group of ornithologists led by Dr Jorge Enrique Avendaño of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá has described a new species of tapaculo...

According to a team of scientists at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, chameleons shift color through active tuning of a lattice of nanocrystals within...

While cats ignore human music, they are highly responsive to music written especially for them, says a new study reported in the journal Applied Animal...

A multinational team of scientists headed by Dr Adrienne Jochum from the University of Bern, Switzerland, has described two new species of the genus Zospeum...

A team of scientists led by Dr Julio César Dalponte of the Institute for the Conservation of Neotropical Carnivores in Atibaia has described a new species...

The Myanmar Jerdon’s babbler (Chrysomma altirostre altirostre), last seen in Myanmar more than 70 years ago, has been discovered still living in the...

A new study published in the journal Current Biology reveals that, unlike other jumping insects, wingless baby mantises don’t spin out of control when...

An international team of entomologists led by Dr Niklas Wahlberg from the University of Turku in Finland has described an enigmatic new species of moth...

Researchers using the Stanford University’s Linac Coherent Light Source – the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser and one of only...

An international team of scientists, co-led by Dr Luis Comolli of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Prof Jillian Banfield of the University...

Only three populations of emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) survived during the last Ice Age (19,500 – 16,000 years ago), and the Ross Sea...

Biologists Dr Jurgen Otto and Dr David Hill have described two new species of spiders in the genus Maratus. Maratus jactatus, male. Image credit: Jurgen...

Cyanobacteria – also known as blue-green algae – have proliferated much more rapidly than other algae in lakes across North America and Europe...

When recalling memories, some individuals can remember items incorrectly. Tiny, buzzing little insects known as bumblebees can be unreliable witnesses...

A group of scientists led by Dr David Hu from the Georgia Institute of Technology has discovered that humans and 21 species of mammals – from hedgehogs,...

According to a group of ornithologists headed by Dr Lysanne Snijders of Wageningen University, the Netherlands, great tits living next to each other may...

A multinational group of entomologists led by Dr Thomas Hertach from the University of Basel has discovered a new species of singing cicada that occurs...

The chicks of an Amazonian bird called the Cinereous mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) mimic toxic, hairy caterpillars of the flannel moths both in appearance...