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Body language key to zoo animal welfare
Nov 13, 2019 | 15:18 pmWatching the behavior and body language of zoo animals could be the key to understanding and improving their welfare, new research suggests.
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Ant expert discovers newly emergent species in his backyard
Nov 13, 2019 | 12:51 pmA global ant expert has traveled the world documenting and discovering ant species. But for his latest discovery, he didn't need to go any farther than his own backyard.
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Songbirds sing species-specific songs
Nov 12, 2019 | 19:09 pmThe generation of species-specific singing in songbirds is associated with species-specific patterns of gene activity in brain regions called song nuclei, according to a new study. According to the authors, the findings could be a promising step toward a better[…]
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Bats don't rely on gut bacteria the way humans do
Nov 12, 2019 | 18:04 pmJust about all mammals, including humans, rely on a community of helpful bacteria living in our guts to help us digest food and fight off diseases. We've evolved along with these bacteria, to the point that closely related species have[…]
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First evidence of feathered polar dinosaurs found in Australia
Nov 12, 2019 | 16:02 pmA cache of 118 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur and bird feathers has been recovered from an ancient lake deposit that once lay beyond the southern polar circle.
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Larger than life: Augmented ants
Nov 12, 2019 | 13:16 pmThe first app of its kind allows users to interact with biodiversity research through augmented reality.
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Miniature fanged 'deer' rediscovered tiptoeing through Vietnam's coastal forests
Nov 11, 2019 | 23:00 pmBiologists have rediscovered a species lost to science since 1990 called a silver-backed chevrotain -- a deer-like species that is the size of a rabbit, has a silver sheen, and has been hanging on in a region of Vietnam ravaged[…]
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New fossil pushes back physical evidence of insect pollination to 99 million years ago
Nov 11, 2019 | 20:41 pmResearchers have pushed back the first-known physical evidence of insect flower pollination to 99 million years ago, during the mid-Cretaceous period.
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New vaccine protects from widespread, costly infection, mice study shows
Nov 11, 2019 | 18:33 pmA newly developed experimental vaccine was more than eighty percent effective in protecting mice from succumbing to Staphylococcus aureus infection. S. aureus causes more than 30,000 deaths from hospital-acquired infections annually in the US, costing the healthcare system $10 billion.
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How the Zika virus can spread
Nov 11, 2019 | 15:50 pmThe spread of infectious diseases such as Zika depends on many different factors. Researchers were able to generate reliable maps for the transmission risk of the Zika virus in South America.
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