6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (649+ words) Africa’s giant herbivores did not simply vanish in a wave of extinctions. Their evolutionary family tree was slowly running out of new branches. A new study suggests that the long decline of animals such as elephants, hippopotamuses, and their extinct…...

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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (772+ words) Thousands of enormous whales are turning the waters off East Greenland into an immense feeding ground that barely existed a generation ago. Fin whales, humpback whales, and common minke whales now gather along a coastline where all three were once…...

3+ week, 7+ 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…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (835+ words) A dolphin rises from the water carrying an empty seashell in its jaws, but the shell is not empty for long. Inside, a trapped fish is about to become dinner. An unusual hunting strategy, known as shelling, involves dolphins trapping…...

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, 3+ day ago   (843+ words) Study reveals how contamination can increase within colonies. Inside a honeybee colony, worker bees act as living filters. They intercept much of the pesticide contamination entering the hive, helping shield the queen and the developing young she produces. But when…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (998+ words) New DNA analysis and a reconstructed family tree could help protect it from poaching. On a museum shelf in London, a pangolin specimen collected nearly 190 years ago held genetic evidence that could change how conservationists track one of the world’s…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (886+ words) New research uncovers a lost world of strange crocodile relatives that once thrived across Australasia alongside early humans. The sight of a saltwater crocodile basking on a mudbank is one of the most iconic and intimidating images of northern Australia....