As darkness falls, the nocturnal half of the animal kingdom starts its day. Nocturnal species are perfectly adapted to navigate...
Fruit flies walking on miniature treadmills are helping scientists learn how the nervous system enables animals to move in an...
Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species. Difficult to distinguish...
A recent study in one of the most pristine spawning grounds for a Minnesota fish has found a half-century gap...
Researchers at UC Merced have used fruit flies to uncover a cellular process common to many organisms that could dramatically...
A research team led by Prof. Seo Byeong-Chang of the Department of Brain Sciences at DGIST has made the world’s...
Aotearoa New Zealand’s true ancient species are animals like Kākāpō, small wrens, bats and freshwater limpets, not recent Aussie immigrants...
The Aedes aegypti mosquito is responsible worldwide for the spread of infectious diseases such as dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow...
Who killed the pregnant porbeagle? In a marine science version of the game Cluedo, researchers from the US have now...
One of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet is closer than you think—right inside your mouth. Your mouth is...
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have discovered a new sensory capability in bacteria which could transform treatments for bacterial...
Alternative splicing is a genetic process where different segments of genes are removed, and the remaining pieces are joined together...
