Biology News

A study reported in the journal Science provides new support for the so-called Cope’s rule – a theory in biology that states that animals tend...

Marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Western Australia Museum have made a surprising discovery in the waters off the coast...

Nicotine and other chemicals found in flowers of tobacco and other plants could be the right prescription for diseased bumblebees and bees, says a group...

According to a new study reported in the journal Evolutionary Biology, bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) only colonized the Mediterranean after...

According to a group of ornithologists led by Dr Christopher James Clark of the University of California, Riverside, the two subspecies of a hummingbird...

An international group of genetic scientists led by Prof Jianzhi Zhang from the University of Michigan has found that penguins lost three of the five basic...

A new cryptic species of rock-wallaby has been described by a team of scientists led by Dr Sally Potter from the Australian Museum Research Institute and...

An international team of botanists led by Dr Thomas Couvreur from the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in Montpellier has described a new genus...

Dogs can discriminate human emotional expressions, according to a new study carried out by scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna,...

Crocodiles think surfing waves, playing ball and going on piggyback rides are fun, too, according to Prof Vladimir Dinets from the University of Tennessee,...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have special grunt calls for particular types of foods. By studying what happened after two separate clans of adult chimps...

Biologists from the United States and Peru have described a colorful new species of water frog from the Peruvian Andes. The water frog Telmatobius ventriflavum....

A new study reported in the Biological Bulletin provides the first direct evidence that the chromosomes of a sea slug called the Eastern emerald elysia...

A group of ornithologists headed by Dr Bernhard Voelkl of Oxford University has found convincing evidence for ‘turn taking’ reciprocal cooperative...

This Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) has female plumage on its right, and male plumage on its left, a condition known as bilateral gynandromorph. Halfsider...

The majority of spiders spin silk threads several micrometers thick, but the orb spider Uloborus plumipes can spin nano-scale filaments. The feather-legged...

A group of ornithologists led by Dr Manuel Schweizer from the Natural History Museum of Bern in Switzerland has described a new cryptic species of owl...

Researchers from the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project have uncovered a unique ecosystem of fish and invertebrates...

A team of synthetic biologists at Yale University has devised a way to ensure genetically modified organisms can be safely confined in the environment. Design...