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...
According to a pioneering study detailed in the journal Nature, hunter-gatherers were using pots for cooking fish as early as 15,000 years ago.
Left: a...
Physicists at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-based Science, Japan, have obtained the most unambiguous data to date on the elusive 113th atomic...
Astronomers at the Keio University, Japan, have discovered a helical molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy some 30,000 light-years away.
Artist’s...
A study by Japanese scientists shows that singing gibbons use the same vocal techniques as soprano singers.
A pair of white-handed gibbons (Matthias Kabel...
A team of Japanese researchers has successfully demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification.
Carrion beetles:...
