Humans aren’t the only primates who like smelling nice for their dates. In the journal Current…
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A new species of bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus phnomchiensis) has been described from Cambodia’s Prey Lang…
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have identified a…
An estimated 150-foot (45-meter) siphonophore — seemingly the longest animal ever recorded was discovered during…
Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Cambridge have…
Unique protein acts as an inward proton pump in a distant microbial relative. Researchers investigated…
Study pinpoints minimum survivable size of Jurassic crocodiles. Taking the evolutionary plunge into water and…
Humans have a number of ways to learn how to do new things. One of…
Columbia study in mice shows how special cells in nose help the brain to distinguish…
The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, has likely…
Primate experts warn that the global human health emergency of COVID-19 also threatens our closest…
Since its accidental introduction in 2003 in France, the yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax)…
The radioactive legacy of the arms race reveals true age of the world’s largest fish.…
It is a longstanding challenge to be able to control biological systems to perform specific…
Virginia Tech researchers discovered genes for cellular metabolic cycles in the genomes of giant viruses.…
Bacteria live in tiny clay-filled cracks in solid rock deep beneath the sea. Newly discovered…
Australopithecus afarensis (‘Lucy’) had ape-like brain organization, but prolonged brain growth like humans Scientists have…
Sturgeons lived on earth already 300 million years ago and yet their external appearance seems…