Conservation measures have successfully stopped declines in the African savanna elephant population across southern Africa, but the pattern varies locally,...
An international team of researchers, led by Professor Gustavo Goldman of the University of São Paulo and Maynooth University’s Dr....
How did insect wings originate? This is a question that represents an unsolved mystery of insect evolution. Despite many years...
Significant evolutionary changes happen gradually as opposed to in dramatic “monster” steps, biologists have discovered, answering the long-debated question as...
Honey yields in the U.S. have been declining since the 1990s, with honey producers and scientists unsure why, but a...
A decades-old mystery of how natural antimicrobial predatory bacteria are able to recognize and kill other bacteria may have been...
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Utah (the U) biologists...
The Santa Barbara Channel’s kelp forests and its sandy beaches are intimately connected. Giant kelp, the foundation species of rocky...
Damage to crops caused by birds costs millions of dollars each year. Now, researchers from the University of Florida and...
Disease-causing bacteria of the genus Salmonella or Yersinia can use tiny injection apparatuses to inject harmful proteins into host cells,...
For talkative midshipman fish—sometimes called the “California singing fish”—the midbrain plays a robust role in initiating and patterning trains of...
A new analysis of fossils believed to be juveniles of T. rex now shows they were adults of a small...
