Female Sumatran Rhino May Be The Key to Saving The Species
As Sumatran rhino numbers continue to decrease and head towards extinction, the race is on to find a breeding pair to start their long-term preservation….
As Sumatran rhino numbers continue to decrease and head towards extinction, the race is on to find a breeding pair to start their long-term preservation….
Evolution is fueled by environmental factors, like climate, or geography. Cultural factors can play their part as well in the form of traditions and behaviors…
Here’s some news that will make you think about throwing out your razor and giving up waxing. People with lots of body hair are better…
Fruit flies. They can be downright annoying in your home, but they aren’t all bad. Here’s one way that they are helping us. A new…
The Australian Outback might seem lifeless, but under the hot, dry surface, it is actually teeming with life. A group of researchers in Australia, looking…
You won’t see many frogs of this size. That’s because they are rare and because they are tiny. Two newly discovered frog species are smaller…
The accompanying video shows a lungfish that uses its fins for walking and this could help to clear up the mysteries about when our distant…
They are tiny and cute and can be seen in countless aquariums. Surely the Guppy is at the bottom of the predator list. Maybe not….
According to Smithsonian researchers, the brains of tiny spiders are so large that they fill their body cavities and even overflow into their legs. They…
Kirtland’s warblers (named after Jared P. Kirtland) are an endangered species of birds that, like so many humans, spend summer in North America and winter…
It looks like human males aren’t the only ones giving women cheap gifts to get sex. Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) wrap their gifts…
Normally we hear about how bad nuclear plants are, but when was the last time you heard a story about how they save animals? One…
Italian toads can apparently sense earthquakes like the earthquake that struck L’Aquila on April 6th, 2009. We know this because Dr. Rachel Grant of the…
Elephants and African farmers have had a long history of conflict, but now Lucy King’s work is helping to bring an end to it, using…
Scientists have reported that they have successfully transplanted human stem cell-derived neurons into the brains of living mice. Human embryonic stem cells grown in a…