Ecology & Zoology

Dolphins and seals have had eons to adapt to aquatic life, but they can still be taxed while pushing the boundaries, according to a paper in Nature Communications which found a surprisingly high…

A team of scientists has identified how a "sixth sense" in fish allows them to detect flows of water, which helps resolve a long-standing mystery about how these aquatic creatures respond to their…

Up to 10% of adults living in developed countries fish for food and recreation and a new paper finds that in the Mediterranean Sea that could be up to 10% of the total production of fisheries - a…

Headshaking in horses, a neuropathic facial pain syndrome, often leaves affected horses impossible to ride and dangerous to handle, and can result in euthanasia. It affects between 10,000 and 20,000…

Up close and personal with the demon shrimp. Amaia Green Etxabe - University of Portsmouth By Alex Ford,University of Portsmouth Demon vs killer shrimp sounds like the latest CGI movie to come out of…

Researchers have developed a detailed explanation of how white-nose syndrome is killing bats in parts of North America - the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans makes bats die by increasing the…

Bowhead whales can live to be over 200 years and show little evidence of the age-related disease that are apparent in humans in our senior years. There may soon by answers why, thanks to a …

In 2006,  Dr. J. E. McPherson, professor emeritus at Southern Illinois University, was working with colleagues on a key to the nymphs of three midwestern species of assassin bug in the…

A new species of frog, Limnonectes larvaepartus, from the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, does what no other frog does: It gives birth to live tadpoles instead of laying eggs. A member of the Asian…

A pleasant or disgusting odor is not always just a preference, in some cases an organism's survival depends on it. Odors can provide important information about food sources, oviposition sites or…