Why Are Giant Pandas Born So Tiny? New Clues From Bones Counter Old Theory
Duke student Peishu Li ’19 remembers the first time he saw a baby panda being born, in a video for a class taught by biology…
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Air Conditioning Is Failing for Glacier National Park’s Iconic Mountain Goats
These Rat-Eating Monkeys Are Helping Protect Palm Oil Harvests
New Species of Bobtail Squid Discovered in Okinawa [Video]
Illumination Drives Bats Out of Caves, No Matter the Color of the Light
Spying With Drones to Help Hippo Conservation Efforts
New Viral Strategy to Escape Detection Discovered by Researchers
More Biodiversity Loss Outside of Cities Due to Urban Growth
Ocean ‘Dead Zones’ With Almost No Oxygen to Sustain Life May Be Expanding Far Quicker Than Thought
Paleontologists Discover Odd Shrimp That Fills Hole in Fossil Record
Tiny Fossils, Big Findings: Paleontologists Discover Odd Mid-Cretaceous Shrimp Hundreds of tiny well-preserved fossils shed new light on one of the poorest fossil records of…
Mysterious Endangered Mammal Has a Venomous Bite – See the Horrifying Venom Delivery Tooth
Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and ZSL (Zoological Society of London) have worked with a team of scientists from institutions across the…
Biologists Discover That Flower Shapes Evolve to Adapt to Their Pollinators
Modularity Facilitates Rapid Adaptation of Single Floral Organs to Different Pollinators The first flowering plants originated more than 140 million years ago in the early…
New Fossils of Ancient Snake With Hind Legs Reveals Tantalizing Details of Evolution
New fossils of an ancient legged snake, called Najash, shed light on the origin of the slithering reptiles, including how snakes got their bite and…
How Enzymes Produced by White Rot Fungi Reign Supreme in Worldwide Carbon Recycling
Richard Wolfenden, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and biophysics, details how white rot fungi produce enzymes that turn out to be key players in the carbon…
Artificial Cells Engineered to Act More Like the Real Thing
Protocells — artificial cells — that are active and mimic living cells by moving independently and that are biocompatible and enzymatically active are now possible…
Scientists Identified a New Bird Species: It Looks Identical to Another With Very Different Genes
Scientists have identified a new bird species from the Southern coast of China, that diverged from its Northern relatives around half a million years ago….
New Tool for Rapidly Analyzing CRISPR Edits Reveals Frequent Unintended DNA Changes
New method unmasks all DNA changes caused by CRISPR in two days vs. two months; Most errant edits may be harmless, but insights essential to…
New Group of Ancient Flying Reptiles Identified by Paleontologists
Study describes new group of pterosaurs, identifies crustacean-heavy diet. New research suggests that ancient flying reptiles known as pterosaurs were much more diverse than originally…