Gorillas usually stand bipedally and rapidly beat their chests with cupped hands in rapid succession. Chest beating is a unique sound because is it not a vocalization, like frogs croaking, but rather it is a form of gestural communication...
Ants react to social isolation in a similar way as do humans and other social mammals. A study by an Israeli-German research team has revealed alterations to the social and hygienic behavior of ants that had been isolated from...
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that bird blood produces more heat in winter, when it is colder, than in autumn. The study is published in The FASEB Journal.
The secret lies in the energy factories of cells, the mitochondria....
Some guys have it all: the muscle, the power, the high social status, the accelerated aging.
But wait. Faster aging? Who wants that? For male baboons, it's the price they pay to be at the top.
New research appearing April 6...
A growing body of evidence suggests that biodiversity loss increases our exposure to both new and established zoonotic pathogens. Restoring and protecting nature is essential to preventing future pandemics. So reports a new Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...
Karina Brocco French explains that sea stars are like butterflies: They go through metamorphosis.
"They start out as adults on the sea floor, and they look like what you expect a starfish to look like," she said. "And they spawn, and...
For the first time, scientists know more about what trees are dominant in the overstory and the understory of the Amazon.
Freddie Draper, a postdoctoral research fellow, Christopher Baraloto, director of the Land and Biodiversity Division of the FIU Institute...
Researchers have developed a new mechanical model that simulates how whiskers bend within a follicle in response to an external force, paving the way toward better understanding of how whiskers contribute to mammals' sense of touch. Yifu Luo and...
A new study out of the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in humans, chimpanzees, rhesus macaques and baboons has found key differences in early gene expression in response to pathogen exposure, highlighting the importance of...
A team of Australian and German researchers has discovered a novel pathway that plants can use to save water and improve their drought tolerance.
The research published today in Nature Communications shows that the molecule GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), most commonly associated with...
Almost all wild canines in Australia are genetically more than half dingo, a new study led by UNSW Sydney shows -- suggesting that lethal measures to control 'wild dog' populations are primarily targeting dingoes.
The study, published today in Australian Mammalogy,...
