Biology News

Oct 3, 2022 by News Staff

New research on the diets of giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) adds evidence that bears are low-protein macronutrient omnivores and need a lot less protein than they are typically fed in zoos. A male giant panda named Xiao Liwu at San Diego Zoo, California, the United States. Image credit: Sci.News. “Bears are not carnivores in the strictest sense like a cat where they consume a high-protein diet,” said Washington...

Oct 3, 2022 by News Staff

The Lord Howe Island wood-feeding cockroach (Panesthia lata), a species of large wingless cockroach that disappeared from its home island following the...

Sep 29, 2022 by News Staff

Dog can smell the changes in our breath and sweat that occur when we’re stressed, according to new research by scientists from Newcastle University and...

Sep 26, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Platystele peruviana, which occurs in the Peruvian Department of Pasco, is the smallest species of orchid found in this South American country. Platystele...

Sep 26, 2022 by News Staff

Researchers have assessed the habituation, learning and cognitive flexibility of a wild population of raccoons (Procyon lotor) in Wyoming, the United States. Raccoons...

Sep 20, 2022 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the United States and Denmark has found specialized pecking-related regions in the woodpecker forebrain that show characteristics...

Sep 19, 2022 by News Staff

The 43-hectare Pando aspen (Populus tremuloides) clone in Utah, the United States, is thought to be the largest living organism on Earth by dry weight...

Sep 15, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Marine biologists have described a new species of the genus Callistoctopus from the waters of southeast China. Callistoctopus xiaohongxu, live specimen....

Sep 10, 2022 by News Staff

Domestic donkeys (Equus asinus) have been important to humans for thousands of years, being the primary source of work and transport for many cultures....

Sep 8, 2022 by News Staff

Tardigrades are able to tolerate almost complete dehydration by entering a reversible state called anhydrobiosis and resume their animation upon rehydration....

Sep 5, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Marine biologists have described a new species of the oyster genus Pinctada from the east coast of Phuket Island, Thailand, in the Andaman Sea. Shell of...

Sep 5, 2022 by News Staff

Three of the new orchid species are endemic to the rugged Kimberley region of Western Australia. Calochilus kimberleyensis. Image credit: Barrett et al.,...

Sep 2, 2022 by News Staff

Hydroxyl radicals are highly reactive chemical species that attack most of the organic molecules. High concentrations of OH radicals were found when people...

Sep 2, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-identified species belong to the gecko subgenus Domerguella in the genus Lygodactylus, and each of them is no longer than your pointer finger. Seven...

Aug 29, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Ornithologists have described a new species of the bird genus Aphrastura from the Diego Ramírez Archipelago, the southernmost point of the South American...

Aug 29, 2022 by News Staff

The newly-discovered neuronal back-up system safeguards metabolic flexibility of neurons to cope with energy demands of electrical signaling, according...

Aug 25, 2022 by News Staff

The sea cows originated in the Tethys Sea, between southern Europe and northern Africa, during the latest part of the Paleocene epoch, according to a new...

Aug 18, 2022 by News Staff

In a new study published this week in the journal Science Advances, scientists used morphological, molecular, and experimental approaches to examine members...

Aug 16, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Rhipidoglossum pareense is endemic to the South Pare and West Usambara mountains of north-eastern Tanzania. Rhipidoglossum pareense. Image credit: A. Hemp. “Rhipidoglossum...

Aug 15, 2022 by News Staff

Harper Forbes and Prakrit Jain, high school students from California’s Bay Area, have discovered two new species of the scorpion genus Paruroctonus. Paruroctonus...