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Clanger or clear wing cicada ( Psaltoda claripennis ). Image courtesy of Arthur Chapman/Flickr Cicadas don’t use antibacterial wing sanitizer, so how do these insects keep their wings free of…
Continue Reading →These are the teeth of an undescribed, new species of toothed baleen whale in the genus Morawanocetus, from Orange County, California. Image courtesy of Meredith Rivin, Dr. John D. Cooper…
Continue Reading →Shoaling perch. Image courtesy of Bent Christensen. “Must be something in the water” isn’t just a line from the opening minutes of a horror movie. New evidence confirms fears that…
Continue Reading →European Blackbird (turdus merula). Image courtesy of IbajaUsap / shutterstock City lights at night make pretty views from space , but they’re not so good for sleeping. To overcome a messed up…
Continue Reading →Image courtesy of Barnaby Chambers / shutterstock Insects constantly clean their antennae, even when they appear to be clean. A group of researchers decided that the phenomenon warranted a closer look…
Continue Reading →A baby barn owl demonstrates the natural neck flexibility of the owl. Researchers studied snowy, barred, and great horned owls. Image courtesy of marilyn barbone / shutterstock. Most animals, humans included…
Continue Reading →Image courtesy of Matt Valentine / shutterstock Domestic cats are known killers, and when let loose they can do real predatory damage. Cats ( Felis catus ) can wipe out entire…
Continue Reading →In the study, African dung beetles (S. satyrus) wore “caps” to block their view of the sky. Image courtesy of Marie Dacke et al. They may spend their lives…
Continue Reading →Reconstruction of Confuciusornis sanctus by Stephanie Abramowicz, NHM Dinosaur Institute. Sue is something of a celebrity among dinosaurs, being the best-preserved T. rex fossil ever found. But in truth…
Continue Reading →The quadruple helix structure is shown at the left. Fluorescent markers on the right show where the helix appears on an individual chromosome (top) and in cells (bottom). What does…
Continue Reading →Image credit: Vera Domingues/Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University A burrow is just a hole in the ground, right? Wrong. Different species of mice have very different burrow designs, and a…
Continue Reading →Illustrated version of an Ichthyostega tetrapod, zooming in on the correct orientation of two vetrebrae reconstructed in the study. Credit: Julia Molnar. When the earliest animals hauled themselves out of…
Continue Reading →China’s One-Child Policy, now in its fourth decade, has achieved its goal of controlling population growth in the world’s most populous country, but it has also created major age…
Continue Reading →Nine of the virus’s victims were found just north of San Francisco and a tenth in southern Oregon. There may be more, too, since raccoons have a habit of hiding…
Continue Reading →This emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa ) leads a cockroach to its burrow using its own antennae as a leash. The emerald cockroach wasp is a mother on a mission…
Continue Reading →Hawaii’s environmental extremes (read a series of active volcanic islands isolated in the middle of the ocean) make it a hotbed of novel evolutionary adaptations. Take goby fish in the…
Continue Reading →The Australian black flying-fox ( Pteropus alecto ) was one of the bat species whose genome was sequenced in the study. Bats are pretty impressive critters. They are notorious…
Continue Reading →As global pollinator populations decline, the pressure is on for scientists to figure out what makes these buzzing insects tick. While bumblebees do not pollinate much of the food we…
Continue Reading →from The Geographical Distribution of Animals (1876), by Alfred Russel Wallace Modern biogeography —the study of the distribution of species—still relies heavily on the above map, despite the fact…
Continue Reading →Birds-of-paradise are living, breathing, dancing, singing examples of evolutionary extremes. Isolated in the rainforests of New Guinea, these species evolved in the absence of predators. As such, their…
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