Modern-day Southeast Asian populations are the result of mixing among four ancient populations, including multiple waves of genetic material from more...
After a journey of 42 months and 2 billion miles (3.2 billion km), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft finally reached its intended...
High Vitamin D levels may be linked to a lower risk of developing cancer, according to a study of Japanese adults published in the journal BMJ.
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An international team of biologists from Poland and Japan has discovered and described a new species of tardigrade. Details of the micro-animal’s discovery...
A new species of seahorse has been discovered in the northern Pacific Ocean, near Japan and the Korean Peninsula.
Coloration of fresh specimens: Hippocampus...
New observations from Akatsuki, a robotic spacecraft launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 2010 to orbit Venus, have revealed an...
In a stunning fossil discovery in Japan, paleontologists unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of a duck-billed dinosaur that lived approximately 72 million...
Fossilized teeth from a newly identified species of extinct shark that lived 20 million years ago (early Miocene) were found in the mid-latitudinal zones...
A group of paleontologists from the United States, the UK and China has discovered two new suspension-feeding species of the bony fish genus Rhinconichthys.
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Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected new mosasaur that lived 72 million years ago in Japan.
Life restoration of Phosphorosaurus...
In a paper published in the journal Animal Cognition, Japanese scientists report on two female Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Kamine Zoo, Japan,...
Meteorite impact reactions may have generated building blocks for life in the oceans of the prebiotic Earth, says a team of scientists led by Dr Yoshihiro...
The larvae of the parasitic wasp Reclinervellus nielseni turn their host spiders Cyclosa argenteoalba into drugged navvys, to modify the web structure...
According to a trio of animal physiology researchers from Japan, the highest-ranking rooster has priority to announce the break of dawn.
Rooster in the...
A new study published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution provides more support for the hypothesis that modern Japanese are an admixed population...
Genetic scientists from China have discovered a small portion of Neanderthal genome (18 genes on chromosome 3, with several related to UV-light adaptation)...
Biologists have described a tiny new species of nematode from an oak forest in Fukushima province, Japan, and named it after the German theoretical physicist...
Japanese biologists have described a new species of spoon worm from the sandy tidal flat Hachi-no-higata of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan.
Spoon worm Arhynchite...
