Chicken during the experiment inspecting the two colored containers.Credit: Lund University / C. Schubert
The researchers have established that chickens -- just like people -- have colour constancy. For birds, this means that they, in different environments and under different...
By tweaking just one or two genes, Cornell University researchers have altered the patterns on a butterfly's wings. This image shows normal and engineered wing patterns as mirror images. Credit: Cornell University
By tweaking just one or two genes, Cornell...
Eggs of the Bombay Night frog being eaten by a snake. Credit:SD Biju
Six mating positions (amplexus modes) are known among the almost 7,000 species of frogs and toads found worldwide. However, the Bombay night frog (Nyctibatrachus humayuni), which is...
Wahlisaurus massare. Credit: James McKay
A new type of ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile alive at the same time as the dinosaurs, has been identified by a Manchester palaeontologist from a fossil found in an old quarry in Nottinghamshire.
Similar-shaped to...
Ancient goat bone used for DNA analyses (from Göytepe).Credit: Image courtesy of Nagoya University
Nagoya University-based researchers analyze ancient DNA of Neolithic domestic goats to reveal that the goats were introduced into the Southern Caucasus from the Fertile Crescent during...
Discovery of an 89.5m tall Yellow Meranti in the Maliau Basin Conservation Area of Malaysia.Credit: University of Cambridge
A tree the height of 20 London double-decker buses has been discovered in Malaysia by conservation scientists monitoring the impact of human...
Live male specimen of the new Godzilla goby fish (holotype).Credit: Barry Brown; CC-BY 4.0
As part of the Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP), initiated by the Smithsonian Institution, a new goby fish species was discovered in the southern Caribbean. Living...
Cape bees.Credit: Mike Allsopp
An isolated population of honeybees, the Cape bees, living in South Africa has evolved a strategy to reproduce without males. A research team from Uppsala University has sequenced the entire genomes of a sample of Cape...
The head of a Beaked sea snake (Hydrophis schistosus) and a close up of a single scale on head. Credit: Jenna Crowe-Riddell
The move from life on land to life in the sea has led to the evolution of...
Research has found that in some cases, the type of algae control done by parrot fish and other species can pose a danger to unhealthy corals, instead of the benefit it usually offers. Credit: Photo by Cory Fuchs, courtesy...
Ilomantis ginsburgae is a new species of leaf-dwelling praying mantis from Madagascar. Scientists from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History named the new species to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,...
