4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (119+ words) Using a new computational toolkit, Yale researchers recovered evolutionary clues from highly degraded DNA and identified two extinct lineages of giant tortoises....

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1279+ words) Bats’ remarkable ability to withstand decades of strenuous flight while keeping infections, inflammation, and cancer in check may offer new clues to healthier human aging Bats are unusually long-lived for animals of their size. Small mammals generally burn energy quickly…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (477+ words) Pristimantis milpe is a common and widespread species that was mistaken for another species for more than a century. The formal description appears in the international journal ZooKeys, which specializes in biodiversity and taxonomy research. The key to identifying Pristimantis…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago   (901+ words) New research from the Dog Aging Project suggests that dogs and humans share some of the same biological patterns linked to lifespan. The finding could help scientists better understand how aging works in both species. In a study recently published…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (663+ words) A small frog living in a flooded corner of the Amazon has turned out to be something scientists had never formally recognized before. Some species hide in remote places. Others hide in plain sight. That detective work revealed more than…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (786+ words) A parasitic plant on a Japanese island has found an unlikely way to send its offspring into the world. It appears to enlist wandering hermit crabs. For years, one basic question remained unresolved: Where do all those seeds go? The…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (269+ words) Seven newly identified diamond frogs reveal hidden diversity that is already influencing conservation planning in Madagascar....

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (626+ words) A crab trapped by its own growth exposes an overlooked hazard of floating plastic waste. About 500 meters off Sesoko Island in Okinawa, Japan, a plastic bottle drifted at the sea surface with juvenile fish gathered around it. Inside was something…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (453+ words) Scientists and citizen volunteers discovered two new snail species in northwestern Montenegro, revealing the region’s hidden biodiversity and strengthening calls to protect Komarnica Canyon within the Durmitor World Heritage Site rather than build a hydropower plant. Two previously unknown snails…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (824+ words) A nearly complete fossil shows that one early dog combined climbing ability with a body unlike those of modern running canids. For more than 30 years, a fossil roughly 30 million years old remained sealed inside rock in an Oregon museum collection....