Venom is associated with being harmful, but red imported fire ants are using their venom for its medicinal benefits by...
It might seem like common sense that a starving animal is more likely to take dangerous risks to obtain food...
Modern eukaryotic cells contain numerous organelles, which once used to be independent bacteria. In order to understand how these bacteria...
Scientists have solved a decades-long mystery as to why ancient tetrapods—amphibian-like creatures that lived over 300 million years ago—preserved in...
Scientists from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Royal BC Museum, and North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have found new...
For spring ephemerals, timing is everything. These special wildflowers grow in temperate forests around the world, early in spring before...
A new study led by the University of Oxford is the first to quantify the day-to-day barriers that conservation workers...
by University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science A new study has found that 70% of...
The TGF-ß cellular signaling network, essential to various functions in all metazoans and involved in many severe human pathologies like...
by Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie e.V. What defines us and other living organisms more strongly, genes or the environment?...
Marine sponges were thought to be more resilient to ocean warming than other organisms. But earlier this year, New Zealand...
While most animals don’t learn their vocalizations, everyone knows that parrots do—they are excellent mimics of human speech. But how...
