Whale and tuna are equally efficient as swimmers
A large gray whale and a much smaller skipjack tuna each propels itself through water. Which is the more efficient swimmer? It has been…
Category: Biology
Forest loss starves fish
Debris from forests that washes into freshwater lakes supplements the diets of microscopic zooplankton and the fish that feed off them –…
Scientists reveal why life got big in the Earth’s early oceans
Why did life forms first begin to get larger and what advantage did this increase in size provide? UCLA biologists working with an…
3.5 billion-year-old microbial mats in sedimentary rock found in Australia
Evidence of 3.5 billion-year-old bacterial ecosystems found in Australia Washington, D.C.— Reconstructing the rise of life during the…
New species of nocturnal primate has a toxic bite
An international team of scientists studying the elusive nocturnal primate the slow loris in the jungles of Borneo have discovered an…
Mummy-making wasps discovered in Ecuador
Some Ecuadorian tribes were famous for making mummified shrunken heads from the remains of their conquered foes. Field work in the cloud…
Increasing ocean temperatures means less zooplankton and therefore less fish
Phytoplankton and zooplankton biomass will decrease 6 percent and 11 percent due to climate change Sea surface temperature is expected to…
10,000 species of birds today thanks to incredible adaptive radiation in early dinosaur evolution
Shrinking helped dinosaurs and birds to keep evolving A study that has ‘weighed’ hundreds of dinosaurs suggests that shrinking…
This genus of bushcricket is a living example of an ultrasonic speaker system
In the rainforests of South America, scientists have discovered a new genus and three new species of insect with the highest ultrasonic…
Ice is nice – new species of sea anemone that lives only on ice
Using a camera-equipped robot to explore beneath the Ross Ice Shelf off Antarctica, scientists and engineers with the Antarctic Geological…