Nottingham Dollies. Credit: The University of Nottingham.
Three weeks after the scientific world marked the 20th anniversary of the birth of Dolly the sheep new research, published by The University of Nottingham, in the academic journal Nature Communications has shown...
The new species Doto carinova was captured at 277 metres under the Weddell sea. Credit: Manuel Ballesteros, UB-IRBio
The cold waters in Weddell, in the Antarctic ocean, are the site of the findings of a new marine invertebrate species –the...
Reinhard used computational modeling to track oceanic dissolved oxygen concentrations globally.Credit: Chris Reinhard / Georgia Tech
A couple of times in four billion years, evolution has slowed to a crawl. And an eon or so has passed before more complex...
Illustration showing size comparison of Australian marsupials including new extinct species of carnivorous marsupial, Whollydooleya tomnpatrichorum, from New Riversleigh fossil site in Queensland.Credit: Illustration: Karen Black/UNSW
A new species of extinct flesh-eating marsupial that terrorised Australia's drying forests about 5...
Paleoparadoxia (left: Desmostylia, Paenungulata) and Ambulocetus (right: Cetacea, Cetartiodactyla) in two different ways of reconstructions -- top: terrestrial/semi-aquatic; bottom: obligate aquatic.Credit: Fujiwara
Despite the extensive fossil record of mammals, it is often difficult to use fossil data to reconstruct the...
With increasing water temperatures comes an increasing likelihood of potentially pathogenic bacteria appearing in the North and Baltic Seas. AWI scientists have now proven that a group of such bacteria known as vibrios can survive on microplastic particles. In...
University of Saskatchewan researchers have succeeded in producing wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) through in vitro fertilization.Credit: Caitlin Taylor
Veterinary researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) have successfully produced bison calves using in vitro fertilization -- a...
Climate change could make much of the Arctic unsuitable for millions of migratory birds that travel north to breed each year, according to a new international study published today in Global Change Biology.
The University of Queensland School of Biological...
Illustration of a riverbed with water mill.Credit: Image courtesy of Radboud University
Salmon largely disappeared from our waters due to the construction of water mills, ecologists from Radboud University conclude (Scientific Reports, 20 July). The construction of water mills caused...
Chimpanzees who travel are more frequent tool users, according to new findings from the University of Neuchâtel and the University of Geneva, Switzerland, to be published in eLife.
Hawa is a wild chimpanzee from the Budongo Forest in Uganda who burns...
A recent study on the oldest proto turtle, Eunotosaurus (left), suggests the broadening of the ribs in turtles was initially an adaptation for burrowing to escape the extremely arid environment of South Africa 260 million years ago. Later the...
