New Discovery on the Mysterious Family Life of Notorious Saber-Toothed Tiger
Like many of today’s millennials, adolescent Sabre-Toothed Cats stayed with family longer than expected. A new study by scientists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)…
Like many of today’s millennials, adolescent Sabre-Toothed Cats stayed with family longer than expected. A new study by scientists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)…
A link between evolution over short time frames (microevolution) and long time frames (macroevolution) that could open new approaches to understanding some of biology’s deepest…
Humans have them, so do other animals and plants. Now research reveals that bacteria too have internal clocks that align with the 24-hour cycle of…
The bacteria scrub out nitrogen, potentially defending against certain nutrient overloads. Corals have evolved over millennia to live, and even thrive, in waters with few…
Using years’ worth of data collected from ice-covered habitats all over the world, a Montana State University team has discovered new insights into the processes…
Co-governance model for implementing conservation management plan gives species their best chances of survival. The Fraser River estuary in British Columbia is home to 102…
Often considered the world’s oddest mammal, Australia’s beaver-like, duck-billed platypus exhibits an array of bizarre characteristics: it lays eggs instead of giving birth to live…
Three papers unveil the extraordinary diversity of animal sex chromosomes. The sex chromosomes genetically define the developmental fate of an embryo to become a male…
In what may be a sign of climate-change-induced conflict, researchers have captured rare photographic evidence of a jaguar killing another predatory wild cat at an…
Like any other plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, or mouse-ear cress, needs nitrogen to survive and thrive. But, like maize, beans, and sugar beet, it prefers nitrogen…
Insects have difficulties handling the higher temperatures brought on by climate change, and might risk overheating. The ability to reproduce is also strongly affected by…
Human white blood cells, known as leukocytes, swim using a newly described mechanism called molecular paddling, researchers report in the Biophysical Journal. This microswimming mechanism…
Increase of inflammation markers in tumor-initiating cells believed to be a response to brain injury. The healing process that follows a brain injury could spur…
Fossils suggest that the constrictors’ origin lies in Europe. Together with his colleague Hussam Zaher of the University in São Paulo, Senckenberg scientist Krister Smith…
University of Copenhagen researchers have discovered how mosses became one of our planet’s most widely distributed plants — global wind systems transport them along Earth’s…
Scientists from Russia and Switzerland have probed into nanostructures covering the corneas of the eyes of small fruit flies. Investigating them the team learned how…
The iconic sunflower sea star has been listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature following a groundbreaking population study led…
An international research team that included three scientists from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography has discovered single-celled microorganisms in a location…