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By using the same experimental framework normally applied to test learnt behavioral responses in animals, biologists from Australia and Italy have successfully...

The new research reported in the journal Nature shows for the first time that birds precisely time when they flap their wings and position themselves in...

According to an international group of scientists led by Dr Nate Stephenson of the US Geological Survey, most of tropical and temperate tree species grow...

Biologists, reporting in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, have identified more than 180 species of biofluorescent fishes. Their study shows that biofluorescence...

Marine biologists from Spain and the United Kingdom have described a tiny new species of crustacean from waters off South Africa and have named it after...

According to a group of biologists at the University of Manitoba, black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) test the alertness of their neighbors...

A new study published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE has found that great white sharks live significantly longer than previously though. The great...

According to a study led by Don Larson of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) freeze up to 60 percent of their bodies...

Meet the gorgeous and colorful new birds discovered this year: Cambodian Tailorbird, Guerrero Brush Finch, Sierra Madre Ground-Warbler, Junin Tapaculo...

Sci-News.com presents some of the best species officially described in 2013. A walking shark, a snail with semi-transparent shell, a venomous crustacean,...

Sci-News.com presents some of the best species officially described in 2013. A walking shark, a snail with semi-transparent shell, a venomous crustacean,...

Dr Michael Engel, an entomologist with the University of Kansas’ Natural History Museum, has reported the discovery of a new species of bee in the...

Biologists at Arizona State University have discovered that veiled chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus) change colors in unusual ways when they interact...

Scientists from the United States have described a new sawshark species from off the Philippine Islands. Pristiophorus lanae. Image credit: David Ebert. Sawsharks...

The African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus), long thought to be a single species, is actually two distinct species, according to an...

An international group of entomologists has described a new genus and species of fungus-farming ant from Brazil. Cyatta abscondita. Image credit: Jeffrey...

Peruvian and American biologists have described three beautiful new species in the lizard genus Liolaemus. Liolaemus pachacutec. Image credit: Aguilar...

Native to the forests and open savannas of Brazil and Colombia, Tapirus kabomani is the newest member of the tapir family (Tapiridae). This is an artist’s...

A team of entomologists from Italy and China has described nine new species of wasps in the genus Cleptes. Cleptes helanshanus. Image credit: Zai-fu Xu. This...