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Scientists confirm just 7,100 cheetahs remain, call for uplisting to ‘Endangered’ on IUCN Red List
The world's fastest land animal, the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), is sprinting towards the edge of extinction and could soon be lost forever unless...
P. polycephalum, a single-celled organism otherwise known as a slime mold, grown on agar in the laboratory.Credit: Audrey Dussutour (CNRS)
It isn't an animal, a plant, or a fungus. The slime mold (Physarum polycephalum) is a strange, creeping, bloblike organism...
The illustration shows cross-sections of a reindeer nose. It clearly shows the complex structure of the nose, which looks like the cross section of a seashell.Credit: Image courtesy of NTNU
Every schoolchild knows about Rudolph the Reindeer and his magic...
As Limusaurus grew from adolescent to adult, it lost its teeth and did not grow a new set.Credit: George Washington University
Researchers have discovered that a species of dinosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis, lost its teeth in adolescence and did not grow...
The bony armor on the body of this gulf pipefish, raised in the lab of William Cresko at the University of Oregon, is not yet well ossified and appears mostly transparent. Bones are stained red. Cartilage is stained blue....
A new rainforest beetle from Madagascar. © California Academy of Sciences
In 2016, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 133 new plant and animal species to our family tree, enriching our understanding of Earth's complex web of life...
Credit: University of Nottingham
Researchers at The University of Nottingham have developed a break-through technique that uses sound rather than light to see inside live cells, with potential application in stem-cell transplants and cancer diagnosis.
The new nanoscale ultrasound technique uses...
The Rufous-headed Robin is related to the Common Nightingale, and similarly has a beautiful song.Photograph: Pete Morris
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden have put together all known information about the endangered...
This is an artist's rendering of Tingmiatornis arctica, the new prehistoric bird species discovered by scientists at the University of Rochester.Credit: Artist rendering by Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester
A team of geologists at the University of Rochester has discovered a...
MIT oceanographers have found that some small marine organisms — mostly bacteria — have a surprisingly low limit to the amount of oxygen they need to breathe.Image: MIT News
Bacteria can survive in marine environments that are almost completely starved...
Rapid population decline among vertebrate species began at the end of the 19th century when industrialization was at its peak, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and the Chinese Academy of...
