In this Dec. 9, 2014, photo, golden jellyfish swim in Jellyfish Lake in Palau. Part of a UNESCO World Heritage area, the saltwater lake has long been a source of wonder for tourists, who have delighted in snorkeling among...
Jamesbondia.Credit: Image courtesy of Taylor & Francis
A new subgenus of plants has officially been called Jamesbondia after the notable American ornithologist James Bond, whose name Ian Fleming is known to have used for his eponymous spy series.
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Large-scale tree mortality in northern Sonoma County, California.Credit: David Rizzo
New research shows the sudden oak death epidemic in California cannot now be stopped, but that its tremendous ecological and economic impacts could have been greatly reduced if control had...
ZooDom veterinarian Adrell Nunez (center) draws blood from a solenodon for DNA samples. Researchers caught the venomous mammal by allowing it to walk across their bodies at night in the forests of the Dominican Republic. Pictured from left to...
Soils are one of the largest reservoirs of microbial diversity on Earth. It is not uncommon for a gram of soil to contain one trillion cells and ten thousand species of bacteria, including Actinomyces israeli.GrahamColm at English Wikipedia
Earth could...
The common bed bug, Cimex lectularius L. Credit: David Lilly
The global resurgence in bed bugs over the past two decades could be explained by revelations that bed bugs have developed a thicker cuticle that enables them to survive exposure...
Coral bleaching.Credit: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
A new study has found that Great Barrier Reef (GBR) corals were able to survive past bleaching events because they were exposed to a pattern of gradually warming waters in...
Bees rely on goldenrod pollen as a food source, but it's less nutritious than it used to be due to rising CO2 levels, a Purdue University study finds.
Credit: Purdue University/Tom Campbell
Rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have reduced protein...
Researchers investigated the deaths of perinatal dolphins, like this one, found in regions affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Credit: Photo courtesy Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Scientists have finalized a four-year study of newborn and fetal dolphins...
This is a new and expanded view of the tree of life, with clusters of bacteria (left), uncultivable bacteria called 'candidate phyla radiation' (center, purple) and, at lower right, the Archaea and eukaryotes (green), including humans.Credit: Graphic by Zosia...
Shark fins are tempting targets for fishermen.Credit: Photo courtesy of Vanessa Jaiteh
The world's largest shark fin industry lies in the heart of the Coral Triangle, a region of the Indian and Pacific Oceans home to the world's most diverse...
