16+ hour, 51+ min ago   (282+ words) When fruit disappears, bearded capuchins switch from foraging to hunting, targeting everything from lizards and rodents to snakes, iguanas, and young birds....

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (677+ words) Lipid droplets in the kidneys may help cats maintain a consistent chemical “scent identity.” Scent marks can linger long after an animal has moved on, allowing urine and other chemical signals to carry information across both distance and time. Yet…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (119+ words) Using a new computational toolkit, Yale researchers recovered evolutionary clues from highly degraded DNA and identified two extinct lineages of giant tortoises....

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1279+ words) Bats’ remarkable ability to withstand decades of strenuous flight while keeping infections, inflammation, and cancer in check may offer new clues to healthier human aging Bats are unusually long-lived for animals of their size. Small mammals generally burn energy quickly…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (649+ words) Africa’s giant herbivores did not simply vanish in a wave of extinctions. Their evolutionary family tree was slowly running out of new branches. A new study suggests that the long decline of animals such as elephants, hippopotamuses, and their extinct…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (631+ words) A deadly fungus has devastated frog and toad populations around the world, yet some groups eventually begin to recover even while the pathogen remains. Researchers led by University College London (UCL), ZSL, and Imperial College London have now identified a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1090+ words) Genetic research revealed four distinct gentoo penguin species, including a newly identified species from the Kerguelen Islands. Scientists warn climate change may endanger several isolated island populations. The emperor penguin, which can grow to about 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall, is the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (477+ words) Pristimantis milpe is a common and widespread species that was mistaken for another species for more than a century. The formal description appears in the international journal ZooKeys, which specializes in biodiversity and taxonomy research. The key to identifying Pristimantis…...