Flowers use adjustable ‘paint by numbers’ petal designs to attract pollinators, researchers discover
Flowers like hibiscus use an invisible blueprint established very early in petal formation that dictates the size of their bullseyes—a...
Though a founding concept of ecology suggests that the physical environment determines where organisms can survive, modern scientists have suspected...
A hawk-eyed photographer has thrilled scientists by snapping a threatened bird of prey in Papua New Guinea, more than five...
Purdue University plant scientists have identified a protein that plays a previously unknown role in controlling cell differentiation and determining...
Sea otters are famed for their luscious pelts, but the fur almost led to their extinction. By 1938, only a...
Microscopic organisms such as bacteria and fungi live together in neighborhoods known as microbial consortia. Some of these neighborhoods naturally...
Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction—and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary...
Scientists have zeroed in on brain circuitry powering the desire of spiny mice to live in large groups, opening the...
Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar (WCM-Q) have created an intricate molecular map of the human body and its...
by Sylvia Kreyssel-Minar, Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung – Fritz-Lipmann-Institut e.V. (FLI) The Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus), an elusive dweller of the...
An Osaka Metropolitan University-led team has demonstrated that bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) check their body size in a mirror...
The evolution of bones in primates’ knees could have implications for how humans evolved to walk upright, a new study...
