Fish with consistent personalities are more successful in social groups and better at helping to build tighter shoals.
Oscar Wilde may have considered consistency "the last refuge of the unimaginative" in human behaviour, but when it comes to fish, the...
Male amphipod. Credit: University of Adelaide
A common marine crustacean has shown researchers that it’s all set to beat climate change – the males will get more attractive to the females, with a resulting population explosion.
The University of Adelaide study...
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Africa's overall elephant population has seen the worst declines in 25 years, mainly due to poaching -- according to IUCN's African Elephant Status Report launched at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES,...
Formation mechanism for the meristem in the lateral roots of Arabidopsis thaliana. When lateral roots grow in this plant, after 4 layers of primordia are formed, the quiescent center is established, and the meristem is formed.Credit: Kobe University
Researchers have...
Scientists were able to map the chemical environments of two different types of melanin, a pigment responsible for black/dark brown or reddish/yellow color in feathers. This illustration shows an American kestrel feather (left), and the X-ray fluorescence maps of...
A nest with male and female midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) and developing embryos attached to the rock.Credit: Margaret A. Marchaterre; Image courtesy of Cornell University
In the 1980s, people living on houseboats in the San Francisco Bay were puzzled by...
Cloudina fossils (Credit: Rachel Wood)
It has long puzzled scientists why, after 3 billion years of nothing more complex than algae, complex animals suddenly started to appear on Earth. Now, a team of researchers has put forward some of the...
Caspian tern chick.Credit: Kevin Rodriguez-WCS
WCS reported today that in the late summer of 2016, a WCS field team led by Dr. Trevor Haynes monitored Caspian tern chicks through to fledging in Cape Krusenstern National Monument in Alaska. This discovery...
An international research team from six universities, including Virginia Tech, works to better understand how trees -- one of Earth's most vital renewable resources -- adapt to changing climates.
Recently the team discovered that two distantly related tree species use...
Researchers from Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station attach devices that enable them to watch a whale's behavior as though they were riding on the animal's back.Credit: Jeremy Goldbogen
Whales are the biggest animals to ever have existed on Earth, and yet...
Researchers at The University of Queensland have established that reef fish see colours that humans cannot.
A team from Professor Justin Marshall’s Sensory Neurobiology Lab at the Queensland Brain Instituteran a series of behavioral experiments with trigger fish, in a...
