Many modern mammals, like this wood mouse, are nocturnal, thanks to evolutionary developments such as night vision in their distant ancestors, Stanford researchers say.
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Our earliest mammalian ancestors likely skulked through the dark, using their powerful...
Honeybees create honey in their hive through the topped-out combs, and they keep beebread -- their food -- in the other combs.
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Honeybees -- employed to pollinate crops during the blooming season -- encounter danger due...
The traps' insides are lined with red glands (a) that work like a plant 'stomach' after a prey is caught. The glands secrete a digestive enzyme. This secretory mechanism was shown at the vesicle level in plants for the...
The red-eyed mutant Jewel wasp, seen on the right, was created in the lab using CRISPR technology. An unmodified Jewel wasp is seen on the left.
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Researchers at UC Riverside's Akbari lab have brought a new strain of...
Microphotographs of the wear patterns of lion teeth. Two on the top left are from wild-caught lions. Top right is from a captive lion. The two bottom left are from the Tsavo man-eaters. The bottom right is from the...
Brown bears may be intermediate hosts of genes between the geographically separated polar and sun bears because the brown bear distribution area overlaps with both of the species.
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Senckenberg scientists have sequenced the entire genomes...
Lab mouse (stock image).
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Human umbilical cord blood can rejuvenate learning and memory in older mice, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
The researchers identified a protein, abundant in human...
BYU researcher Brooks Britt is with the newly discovered Moabosaurus, on display at BYU's Museum of Paleontology.
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Move over, honeybee and seagull: it's time to meet Moabosaurus utahensis, Utah's newly discovered dinosaur, whose past reveals even more...
A decline of species abundance in hunted forest within 0-40 km from hunter access points.
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Hunting is a major threat to wildlife particularly in tropical regions, but a systematic large-scale estimate of hunting-induced declines of animal numbers...
The skin color pattern of this southwestern European lizard changes scale by scale.
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From the clown fish to leopards, skin colour patterns in animals arise from microscopic interactions among coloured cells that obey equations discovered by the mathematician Alan...
This is the wing of the bird-like feathered dinosaur Anchiornis under laser-stimulated fluorescence. The folds of skin in front of the elbow and behind the wrist (called patagia) were covered in feathers, just like in modern living birds.
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