Biology News

Queen has a tremendous impact on the colony, but she's not the decision maker,

A tiny single-celled organism that plays a key role in the carbon cycle of cold-water oceans may be a lot smarter than scientists had suspected.

A team of researchers from McGill University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) has provided the first example of how colour patterns on a coral reef fish species can drive its evolution into many distinct species.

Birdsongs that filled the childhoods of countless baby-boomers are rarely heard wafting on today’s spring breezes….Once-familiar avian spectacles now elude young birdwatchers…It’s not your imagination…

Following more than a decade of study and advocacy by World Wildlife Fund, the Russian Government recently created the 200,000 acre Zov Tigra National Park, the first national park for the Siberian tiger.

The next time you venture into your garden armed with plants, consider who you place next to whom. It turns out that the docile garden plant isn't as passive as widely assumed, at least not with strangers.

Mothers know best when it comes to dressing their children, at least among side-blotched lizards, a common species in the western United States.

Aerial surveys by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society confirm the existence of more than 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope and Mongalla gazelle in Southern Sudan, where wildlife was thought to have vanished as a result of decades-lo

This is the first functional MRI study to determine how vocal sounds are represented within the brain of an awake zebra finch, a well-studied animal model of vocal learning. Because of many similarities between birdsong and human speech. this research cou

A new finding by an undergraduate scientist and a senior bee researcher gives new insight on the weird, leaderless organization of honeybee colonies, which exhibit behavior rivaling human cultures in social complexity.