The Oaxaca Cave Sleeper has not been collected or seen in more than 20 years and lives in a cave system threatened by damming. Credit: Stephen Walsh, USGS
Researchers have described a new genus and species of cavefish from Mexico...
An ancient, hummingbird-size bird got its wing stuck in sticky tree resin and likely struggled for its life about 99 million years ago. Researchers nicknamed this specimen "Angel Wing."Credit: Chung-tat Cheung
The preserved wings feature bones, soft tissue, and feathers....
University of Delaware researchers project that approximately 30 percent of current Adélie colonies may be in decline by 2060 and approximately 60 percent may be in decline by 2099. Warming in Antarctica, once beneficial to the penguins, has reached...
A lionfish specimen photographed in the Mediterranean.Credit: Maria Papinikola
Rising sea temperatures in the Mediterranean are encouraging alien lionfish species to invade and colonise new territories with potentially serious ecological and socioeconomic impacts.
Evidence collated from divers and fishermen reveals that...
Credit: Florida International University
Fans of Shark Week are sinking their teeth into a whole new slate of programming focused on one of the world’s most fascinating predators.
Discovery Channel’s annual television event kicked off this Sunday, and FIU marine scientist...
Rubber is eing collected from a rubber tree.Credit: Minami Matsui at RIKEN
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan along with collaborators at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) have succeeded in decoding the genome sequence for...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory researchers found 'amazing diverity' in the maize plant by extensively sampling messages copied from activated genes in these six portions, or 'tissues,' of the plant.Credit: Ware lab CSHL
The genome of the corn plant -- or...
In this Tuesday, June 21, 2016 photo, a male New England cottontail rabbit sits in a pen at the Roger Williams Park Zoo, in Providence, R.I. In an ambitious restoration project, following 50 years of decline in the population...
Left to right: 1. Mussels (Mytilus trossulus) at Copper Beach in West Vancouver, Canada 2. Cockles (Cerastoderma edule) collected in the ria of Arousa in Galicia, Spain 3. Golden carpet shell clams (Polititapes aureus) collected in the ria of...
An ostracod displaying bioluminescent courtship.Credit: Image created in Photoshop by Todd Oakley
When you're a firefly, finding "the one" can change the world. Literally.
A new study by UCSB evolutionary biologists Todd Oakley and Emily Ellis demonstrates that for fireflies, octopuses...
A very old female Barbary macaque at "La Forêt des Singes" in Rocamadour, France. Credit: Julia Mörchen/German Primate Center
As people get older, they become choosier about how they spend their time and with whom they spend it. Now,...
