3+ hour, 34+ min ago  (311+ words) Dolphin Biology and Conservation study finds over 80% of Adriatic bottlenose dolphins now depend on trawl fishing boats for scavenging Dolphins have been observed following fishing vessels to obtain food. Researchers analyze this as dolphins abandoning hunting to live by begging....

5+ hour, 34+ min ago  (417+ words) Western University study links spatial memory in Poecile gambeli to extra-pair paternity across 732 chicks A team led by Kerri Branch at Western University in Canada analyzed spatial learning and memory and extra-pair mating behavior in mountain chickadees, and reported their…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (345+ words) Transplanted embryonic organizer from comb jelly creates two mouths and two pharynges, hinting at early animal evolution When the "body blueprint" of a jellyfish was removed and transplanted into a sea anemone, new body parts formed. The research team said…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (326+ words) Queen cells specially engineered by honeybees A joint team from Auburn University in the United States and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has reported in the journal 'Nature' on the 3rd (local time) that the honeybee queen cell is not…...

1+ mon, 9+ hour ago  (530+ words) Analysis of 120 bird species finds self-stimulation more frequent in wild parrots and other birds than in captive pet birds New research has found that masturbation in parrots and other companion or pet birds is not an abnormal behavior caused by…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (312+ words) A humpback whale first observed in Brazil 22 years ago was sighted again off the coast of Australia in September last year. It is estimated to have traveled about 15, 100 km. This is the longest recorded movement distance for an individual humpback…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (379+ words) This week's cover of the international journal 'Science' features the back of a person carrying a 'pirarucu' (scientific name Arapaima gigas), a giant Amazonian freshwater fish that grows up to 3 meters long and weighs 200 kilograms. The pirarucu is considered a…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (348+ words) A brilliantly patterned Chachi tree frog was featured on the cover of the international scientific journal 'Nature' this week. It symbolizes a study's findings that a destroyed tropical rainforest can recover over 90% of its original state within 30 years through natural…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (339+ words) The American company Colossal Biosciences (hereafter Colossal), which is working to resurrect extinct animals like the woolly mammoth and the dodo bird using biotechnology, has added the 'Bluebuck' (scientific name Hippotragus leucophaeus), a large antelope that went extinct in the…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (296+ words) A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan has been caught on camera for the first time using a treetop rope bridge to cross a forest'fragmented by a road. The Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) and local environmental group 'Tanggu Hutan Kaltulistiwa' announced on…...