Illustration showing how the three new species of fossil cloud rats might have looked. Credit: © Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum Fluffy rodents twice the size…
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An at-risk mussel species. Credit: David Aldridge Moving endangered species to new locations is often used as part of species conservation strategies, and can help…
A new study sequencing the genome of four species of sifakas (Propithecus), a genus of lemurs found in Madagascar’s forests, reveals that these animals’ taste…
Grass crops are able to bend the rules of evolution by borrowing genes from their neighbors, giving them a competitive advantage, a new study has…
Heterochromatin enrichment across chromosomes. Immunofluorescence staining for H3K9me3 in male mitotic chromosomes. Scale bar is 50μm. Credit: Nguyen AH et al., 2021, PLOS Genetics DNA…
When it comes to friendships and rivalries, male dolphins know who the good team players are. New findings, published in Nature Communications by University of Bristol researchers,…
Loggerhead sea turtle. Credit: Pixabay North Pacific loggerhead turtles’ years-long oceanic journeys remain poorly understood. Using data from satellite tracking and other techniques, scientists reveal…
The skeleton of Trix at Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Credit: Mike Bink Humans and animals have a preferred walking speed. This is, in part, influenced by…
The observation that most of the viruses that cause human disease come from other animals has led some researchers to attempt “zoonotic risk prediction” to…
Plants in the genus Callitriche are short and have oval-shaped leaves about 1 cm in size. Amphibious Callitriche palustris (left, photographed in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture)…
Diversity in diet plays a role in the complexity of venom in pit vipers such as rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouths. But new collaborative research by…
DANNCE is a new tool that can use multiple video recordings of an animal in a complex environment (Upper) to determine the animal’s full 3D…
Tarantulas are among the most notorious spiders, due in part to their size, vibrant colors, and prevalence throughout the world. But one thing most people…
In mice deficient in USAG-1, an antagonist of BMP, the trace deciduous incisors survive and erupt as excess teeth. Credit: Kyoto University/Katsu Takahashi Antibody for…
Credit: Caltech A good way to find out what a cell is doing—whether it is growing out of control as in cancers, or is under…
The recovering forest 3 years after coffee pulp was applied to the area. Credit: Rebecca Cole. A new study finds that coffee pulp, a waste…
The amphibious Scolopendra alcyona Tsukamoto & Shimano inhabits streamside environments, deep in the forests of the Ryukyu Archipelago. Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Godly proportions for…
New research reveals how cancer cells endure stress and survive. Publishing in Molecular Cell, an international research team identified mechanisms that human and mouse cells…
Dendritic cells (co-stained Red/green) in a lymphoid follicle (peyer’s patch) draining the intestine (blue). Credit: Wang Cao and Shengbo Zhang, WEHI Using a new single-cell…
This image shows a chimera human-monkey blastocyst. Credit: Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology Investigators in China and the United States have injected…