After the great dinosaur extinction some 65 million years ago, mammals finally had their big shot as numerous niches became free for the taking. Thus, from mouse size, some mammal...
A team of international scientists claim that they've found evidence of the first non-human species that cultivates planets for non-food purposes. The extremely fine feathered bowerbirds, native to Australia and...
In the past 3 months, over 3000 dead dolphins have been washed ashore on the coasts of Peru, and this worrying trend continues to grow. So far, the average is...
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Scientists at Newcastle University are currently developing a tiny bio-inspired robot, just one centimeter in length, which in less than five years might be used to diagnose and pinpoint diseases...
The scalloped hammerhead shark which we've probably all seen has a twin - and this discovery led to the conclusion that members of the species might be much, much rarer...
Neurons are the absolute core components of the nervous system that transmit information through electrical and chemical signals. I once wondered how...
We've reported in the past about the frightening, ever growing cases of honeybee population dye-offs of the past few years, and while no immediate or long term plan has been...
The Cambrian era marked a profound change on life on Earth, sparking the rapid development of complex organisms and a diversification of the ecosystem, thus the term "Cambrian explosion". Prior...
In what might seem an oddball experiment in the first instance, later revealing some very interesting scientific facts, a Kyoto University researcher asked 60 women participating in a study to look...
Researchers have completed the great apes family's genetic library after they sequenced the genes of...
Symbiosis is an absolutely fantastic adaptation in itself, but this case of deep sea symbiosis takes it to a whole new level: basically, a hermit crab uses an anemone as...
Velociraptors have been repeatedly described by paleonthologists as voracious predators, however a recent study of a 75 million year old specimen revealed that the dinosaur wasn't picky at all, and...
Be on the look out for a one year old Humboldt escaped from the Tokyo Sea Life park; the young penguin was caught speeding in the Kyu-Edo River headed towards...
Diversity is one of the most shocking aspects when it comes to life on Earth, and knowing how many species walk this planet alongside us is perhaps one of the...
During man's exploits through out history, a great number of species were driven to extinction, either by excessive hunting, habitat destruction, disease or pest introductions and so on. There are...
University of Nottingham scientists spurred a slew of debate in 2008 when they claimed their object of study, the planaria or "flatworm", might actually be immortal, possessing an indefinite ability to regenerate...
New Zealand is home of some of the world's weirdest animals, and things weren't very different 24 million years ago either: a huge penguin, measuring 1.3 meters tall was found...
Each year, billions of chickens are raised all over the world with the sole purpose of providing meat at the end of their couple of weeks-long lives. The animals are ...
A team of German and American researchers have discovered four new species of tiny chameleons on the island of Nosy Hara, just off the northern coast of Madagascar, which considered...