Zoology News
May 16, 2024
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May 15, 2024 — What makes the oldfield mouse steadfastly monogamous throughout its life while its closest rodent relatives are promiscuous? The answer may be a previously unknown hormone-generating cell. Scientists discover the cells and hormones that inspire mice ...
May 13, 2024 — While wildflowers and perennials are a must for supporting pollinators, there's no denying the popularity of many annual flowers for their colorful, visual appeal. A new study suggests choosing the ...
May 15, 2024 — When tiger beetles hear a bat nearby, they respond by creating a high-pitched, ultrasonic noise, and for the past 30 years, no one has known why. In a new study, scientists lay the mystery to rest by showing that tiger beetles use ultrasonic warning ...
May 15, 2024 — A parasitic worm that can infest the brains of moose appears to be playing a role in the decline of the iconic animal in some regions of North America. Moose populations have been dwindling for years across the country due to many contributing ...
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May 15, 2024 — A small number of New York City wild birds carry highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, according to a recent ...
May 14, 2024 — Scientists are one step closer to combating coral-destroying crown-of-thorns starfish, following a study into the pest's ...
May 14, 2024 — Research indicates a specially bred line of chickens could save growers thousands of gallons of water and thousands of pounds of food each month ...
May 13, 2024 — Men with prostate cancer could significantly reduce the chances of the disease worsening by eating more fruits, vegetables, nuts, and olive oil, according to new ...
May 13, 2024 — in March a farm worker who reported no contact with sick or dead birds, but who was in contact with dairy cattle, began showing symptoms in the eye ...
May 13, 2024 — The Giant Hummingbird of western South America is not one species but two, according to an international group of researchers. The northern population stays in the high Andes year-round while the ...
May 13, 2024 — Would you trust a robot to look after your cat? New research suggests it takes more than a carefully designed robot to care for your cat, the environment in which they operate is also vital, as well ...
May 13, 2024 — Suddenly they appear and -- like the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus -- can trigger major epidemics: Viruses that nobody had on their radar. They are not really new, but they have changed genetically. In ...
May 13, 2024 — The researchers found that birds were more evolutionarily similar on smaller, more isolated islands than on larger, less remote places. The team had expected to find that forested areas had more ...
May 9, 2024 — In a study of a species of African butterfly, researchers have discovered a previously undescribed molecular mechanism of how the sex of an embryo is initially ...
Earlier Headlines
May 8, 2024 — Even bugs as small as woodlice can disperse seeds they eat, setting a new record for smallest animal recorded to do so. The discovery underscores the crucial yet often overlooked role that small ...
May 8, 2024 — How do city residents feel about animals in their immediate surroundings? A recent study shows how different the acceptance of various wild animals in urban areas is. Important factors are the places ...
May 7, 2024 — How well bees tolerate temperature extremes could determine their ability to persist in a changing climate. But heat tolerance varies between and within populations, so entomologists examined bee ...
May 6, 2024 — As the region reckons with its toxic history of offshore dumping off the California coast, new findings raise troubling questions about whether the banned pesticide remains a threat to wildlife and ...
May 3, 2024 — A new study finds people who have nature-based experiences report better well-being and lower psychological distress than those who do not. Birdwatching in particular yielded promising results, with ...
May 3, 2024 — Researchers uncovered compelling evidence that Earth's magnetic field was in a highly unusual state when the macroscopic animals of the Ediacaran Period -- 635 to 541 million years ago -- ...
May 3, 2024 — Evidence from archaeological sites in the medieval English city of Winchester shows that English red squirrels once served as an important host for Mycobacterium leprae strains that caused leprosy in ...
May 2, 2024 — A wild orangutan was observed applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild ...
May 2, 2024 — Artificial intelligence analysis of data gathered by acoustic recording devices is a promising new tool for monitoring the marbled murrelet and other secretive, hard-to-study ...
May 1, 2024 — Amazonia is the home of the largest variety of birds in the world. In such a unique environment, craft cultures have flourished by translating the beauty and creativity of environmental materials ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — As the world faces the loss of a staggering number of species of animals and plants to endangerment and extinction, one scientist has an urgent message: Chemists and pharmacists should be key players ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — A study of body size in leaf-nosed bats of the Solomon Islands has revealed surprising genetic diversity among nearly indistinguishable species on different ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — A four-legged robot trained with machine learning has learned to avoid falls by spontaneously switching between walking, trotting, and pronking -- a milestone for roboticists as well as biologists ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Scientists have applied a data-driven approach to understanding firefly population dynamics on a continental scale. Key findings from this new study indicate that fireflies, part of the beetle order, ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — When hunting for mice in winter, red and arctic fox are known to plunge headfirst at speeds of 2-4 meters per second, but their sharp noses reduce the impact force in snow and protect them from ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Greening the way we eat needn't mean going vegetarian. A healthy, more realistic solution is to adopt a flexitarian diet where seafoods add umami to 'boring' vegetables. A ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Are mice clever enough to be strategic? A neuroscientist who studies learning in humans and animals, and who has long worked with mice, wondered why rodents often performed poorly in tests when they ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Report details first-ever finding of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in North American ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Indigenous aquaculture systems in Hawaii, known as loko i'a or fishponds, can increase the amount of fish and fisheries harvested both inside and outside of the pond. Today, aquaculture supplies ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Cichlid fishes exhibit differing degrees of curiosity. The cause for this lies in their genes, as reported by researchers. This trait influences the cichlids' ability to adapt to new ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
- New Record Holder for Smallest Dispersers of Ingested Seeds: Woodlice
- Acceptance of Animals in Urban Environments
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Monday, May 6, 2024
Friday, May 3, 2024
- Birdwatching Can Help Students Improve Mental Health, Reduce Distress
- Did a Magnetic Field Collapse Trigger the Emergence of Animals?
- In Medieval England, Leprosy Spread Between Red Squirrels and People, Genome Evidence Shows
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- Wild Orangutan Treats Wound With Pain-Relieving Plant
- Artificial Intelligence Enhances Monitoring of Threatened Marbled Murrelet
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Missing Link in Species Conservation: Pharmacists, Chemists Could Turn Tide on Plant, Animal Extinction
- Researchers Parse Oddity of Distantly Related Bats in Solomon Islands That Appear Identical
- Trotting Robots Reveal Emergence of Animal Gait Transitions
Monday, April 29, 2024
- Fading Lights: Multiple Threats to North America's Firefly Populations
- Long Snouts Protect Foxes When Diving Headfirst in Snow
- Fixin' To Be Flexitarian: Scrap Fish and Invasive Species Can Liven Up Vegetables
Friday, April 26, 2024
- Test Reveals Mice Think Like Babies
- Florida Dolphin Found With Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu
- Could Fishponds Help With Hawaii's Food Sustainability?
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- Curiosity Promotes Biodiversity
- Herring Arrives Earlier in the Wadden Sea Due to Climate Change
- Scientists Replace Fishmeal in Aquaculture With Microbial Protein Derived from Soybean Processing Wastewater
- How Do Birds Flock? Researchers Do the Math to Reveal Previously Unknown Aerodynamic Phenomenon
- Unveiling the Lionfish Invasion in the Mediterranean Sea
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Squids' Birthday Influences Mating
- Study Compares Salmonella Rates in Backyard, Commercial Poultry Farm Samples
- Tropical Fish Are Invading Australian Ocean Water
Friday, April 19, 2024
- New Compound from Blessed Thistle Promotes Functional Nerve Regeneration
- 'Itinerant Breeding' In East Coast Shorebird Species
- Lemur's Lament: When One Vulnerable Species Stalks Another
- Helping Migrating Salmon Survive Mortality Hot-Spot
- Key Protein Regulates Immune Response to Viruses in Mammal Cells
Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Why Can Zebrafish Regenerate Damaged Heart Tissue, While Other Fish Species Cannot?
- Fourteen Years After the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Endemic Fishes Face an Uncertain Future
- Marine Microbial Populations: Potential Sensors of the Global Change in the Ocean
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Paleontologists Unearth What May Be the Largest Known Marine Reptile
- Mountain Chickadees Have Remarkable Memories. A New Study Explains Why
- Copper Beads in Pig Feed Reshape Swine Gut Microbiome
- Storks Fly With a Little Help from Their Friends
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Reproductive Success Improves After a Single Generation in the Wild for Descendants of Some Hatchery-Origin Chinook Salmon
- Huge Database Gives Insight Into Salmon Patterns at Sea
- Older Males out-Compete Young Males Outside Breeding Pairs, Bird Study Shows
- New Tagging Method Provides Bioadhesive Interface for Marine Sensors on Diverse, Soft, and Fragile Species
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Evolution's Recipe Book: How 'copy Paste' Errors Cooked Up the Animal Kingdom
- Tropical Forests Can't Recover Naturally Without Fruit-Eating Birds
- Even the Simplest Marine Organisms Tend to Be Individualistic
- Leptanilla Voldemort, a Ghostly Slender New Ant Species from the Dark Depths of the Underground
- Carbon Beads Help Restore Healthy Gut Microbiome and Reduce Liver Disease Progression
Friday, April 12, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- New Computer Vision Tool Wins Prize for Social Impact
- Oxidant Pollutant Ozone Removes Mating Barriers Between Fly Species
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- Scientists Create Octopus Survival Guide to Minimize Impacts of Fishing
- Ants in Colorado Are on the Move Due to Climate Change
- New Report 'braids' Indigenous and Western Knowledge for Forest Adaptation Strategies Against Climate Change
- 3D Mouth of an Ancient Jawless Fish Suggests They Were Filter-Feeders, Not Scavengers or Hunters
- Cold-Affinity Algae Species Are Gradually Being Replaced by Warm-Affinity Ones Off the Coast of Biscay
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- What's Quieter Than a Fish? A School of Them
- Birdfeeders Are Designed to Keep Unwanted Guests Away
- Impact of Climate Change on Marine Life Much Bigger Than Previously Known
- Do Some Mysterious Bones Belong to Gigantic Ichthyosaurs?
Monday, April 8, 2024
Friday, April 5, 2024
- In the Evolution of Walking, the Hip Bone Connected to the Rib Bones
- Dinosaur Study Challenges Bergmann's Rule
- Four in Five Bird Species Cannot Tolerate Intense Human Pressures
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- What Four Decades of Canned Salmon Reveal About Marine Food Webs
- Adult Fish Struggle to Bounce Back in Marine Protected Areas
- Nudging in a Virtual Supermarket for More Animal Welfare
- Fish Species That Move Rapidly Toward the Poles Due to Global Warming Decline in Abundance, Study Finds
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- Discovery Could End Global Amphibian Pandemic
- More Social Birds Are More Adventurous Feeders
- We've Had Bird Evolution All Wrong
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- How and Why Animals Can Live Alongside Humans
- When Did the Chicken Cross the Road? New Evidence from Central Asia
Monday, April 1, 2024
- Computational Tools Fuel Reconstruction of New and Improved Bird Family Tree
- Machine Learning Provides a New Picture of the Great Gray Owl
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- Genomic Research May Help Explain Cancer Resistance in Tasmanian Devils
- Small Birds Spice Up the Already Diverse Diet of Spotted Hyenas in Namibia
- Lyrebird Synchronizes Elements of Its Mating Dance
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Understanding Cattle Grazing Personalities May Foster Sustainable Rangelands
- North American Cities May See a Major Species Turnover by the End of the Century
- Scientists Warn: The Grey Seal Hunt Is Too Large
- Looking to the Past to Prevent Future Extinction
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- The Behavior of Ant Queens Is Shaped by Their Social Environment
- Researchers Find Energy Development and Tree Encroachment Impact Wyoming Pronghorn
- In Paleontology, Correct Names Are Keys to Accurate Study
- Two Coral Snakes Recorded Battling for Prey in a Scientific First
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Bees Use Antennae to Decode Hive Mates' Dances in the Dark
- How Many Fish Constitute a School?
- Humans Pass More Viruses to Other Animals Than We Catch from Them
- Caller ID of the Sea: Tagging Whale Communication and Behavior
- Wild Bird Gestures 'after You'
Friday, March 22, 2024
Thursday, March 21, 2024
- Evolutionary History of the Formation of Forceps and Maternal Care in Earwigs
- Rose Essential Oil: A Safe Pesticide for Organic Agriculture
- Researchers Name Prehistoric Amphibian Ancestor Discovered in Smithsonian Collection After Kermit the Frog
- Entanglements of Humpback Whales in Fish Farms Rare -- And Naivety Could Be to Blame
- Species Diversity Promotes Ecosystem Stability
- How Butterflies Choose Mates: Gene Controls Preferences