Jonathan Hanson with the ichthyosaur skeleton at the School of Earth Sciences.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Bristol
A new species of British ichthyosaur has been identified using skeletal remains which have been on display at the University of Bristol's...
A jaguar named Aquiles recorded by camera traps in Cana National Park, Darien Province, Panama.Credit: Fundación Yaguará Panamá.
Ricardo Moreno, research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama and director of the Yaguará Panamá Foundation, reported at...
The new shark species named ‘paradoxodon,’ or paradoxical teeth, comes from the fact that the shark appears to have emerged suddenly in the geologic record with a yet unresolved nearly 45-million-year gap from when Megalolamna possibly split from its...
Researchers tag a 1,000-pound giant bluefin tuna off Port Hood, Nova Scotia. Credit: TAG A Giant
The study shows that the release of 4 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon disaster during...
Researchers at KAUST have sequenced the genome of a coral reef fish from the Red Sea, the blacktail butterflyfish, for the first time. Credit: Flickr/Tim Sheerman-Chase
A genome for the blacktail butterflyfish may illustrate how reef fish adapt to challenging...
Microplastic fibre inside sea pen polyp.Credit: Michelle Taylor
Scientists working in the mid-Atlantic and south-west Indian Ocean have found evidence of microfibers ingested by deep sea animals including hermit crabs, squat lobsters and sea cucumbers, revealing for the first time...
The dog is the oldest domesticated animal and during thousands of years it has adapted to a life among humans. During this period dogs have developed unique abilities to communicate and cooperate with humans.Credit: © sashaiw/ Flickr
The social ability...
A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) offers a twist on a popular theory for how life on Earth began about four billion years ago.
The study questions the "RNA world" hypothesis, a theory for...
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have identified a fungus that compromises the immune system of mosquitoes, making them more susceptible to infection with the parasite that causes malaria. Because environmental microorganisms can vary greatly...
Flowers of Mountain avens (Dryas) in front of Zackenberg, Northeast Greenland.Credit: Mikko Tiusanen
Forget the view of the Arctic as an icy desert devoid of life. The Arctic summer is buzzing with insects -- and here as everywhere else, plants...
Heads held high at Punta Tombo. Credit: Dee Boersma
Biologists of all stripes attest to evolution, but have debated its details since Darwin’s day. Since changes arise and take hold slowly over many generations, it is daunting to track this...
