A shingleback lizard seized at Perth airport by Western Australia’s Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. Credit: Photo supplied by Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and…
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A California reptile shop began breeding Mr. Frosty in 2016 and produced a colony of lemon-yellow leopard geckos. The color variety was known as Lemon…
The venom of a caterpillar, native to South East Queensland, shows promise for use in medicines and pest control, Institute for Molecular Bioscience researchers say.…
Research led by scientists at the University of Bristol has shed new light on how the kidneys of the one-humped Arabian camel play an important…
Likely the first extinction event of the 2000s in Europe, the sad history of the Pyrenean Ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) is a powerful example of…
Perfect Bush-crow and Swallow habitat in Ethiopia. Credit: Andrew Bladon The White-tailed Swallow, Hirundo megaensis, and Ethiopian Bush-crow, Zavattariornis stresemanni, are living in ‘climatic lifeboats’…
Governments have pushed for the closing of so-called “wet markets” around the world, but this is not an effective policy solution, according to Princeton University…
E. issunboushi. Credit: Toba Aquarium In the Kumano Sea, off the southeast coast of Japan, an evolutionary mystery lay in wait. Researchers collected samples from…
The study involved 375 budding service dogs from the Canine Companions service dog organization. Credit: Courtesy of Emily Bray/University of Arizona Dogs may have earned…
Pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor). Credit: Photograph by Tainara Sobroza New study finds one species will adopt another species’ calls in shared territory. New research has…
This image shows frog embryos in eggs. Credit: Nicolas Mathevon It’s well known that reptiles depend on temperature cues while in the egg to determine…
First-of-its-kind mechanical model simulates bending of mammalian whiskers. Researchers have developed a new mechanical model that simulates how whiskers bend within a follicle in response…
Rodents and pigs share with certain aquatic organisms the ability to use their intestines for respiration, finds a study publishing May 14th in the journal…
A team of scientists compared methodologies to count African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were recently acknowledged by IUCN as a separate, Critically Endangered species…
A male orangutan eating non-fruit vegetation instead of the fruit orangutans prefer on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Credit: Kristana Parinters Makur/Tuanan Orangutan…
A baby bamboo shark born via artificial insemination. Credit: Photo by Jay Harvey, Aquarium of the Pacific It’s a tough time to be a shark.…
Female putty-mosed monkey. Credit: C. Kolopp/WCS Female putty-nosed monkeys use calls just to recruit males when certain predators are detected Results suggest that different “dialects”…
The caecilians found on the southern part of the island are typically yellow with brown splotches. Credit: © Andrew Stanbridge Research adds evidence to century-long…
A new Tel Aviv University study has revealed, for the first time, that bats know the speed of sound from birth. In order to prove…
A view of the head of Strumigenys ayersthey. A newly discovered miniature trap jaw ant from the evergreen tropical forests of Ecuador bears the curious…