Animals News
November 7, 2024
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Nov. 6, 2024 — Research sheds light on how coyotes, North America's most successful predators, are responding to various environmental pressures, including human development, hunting and competition with larger carnivores. Surprisingly, the study's findings ...
Nov. 6, 2024 — Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before the appearance of the first animals. A team has ...
Nov. 1, 2024 — Researchers investigate how the complex, cooperative behavior of honey bees (Apis mellifera) is genetically programmed so that it can be passed on to subsequent generations. They found an answer in what is known as the doublesex gene ...
Nov. 4, 2024 — Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new information about ...
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Oct. 30, 2024 — The cervid livestock business is one of the fastest-growing industries in rural America. In Missouri alone, more than 250 farms are dedicated to raising deer. To improve overall herd health and ...
Oct. 30, 2024 — Marine animals like jellyfish, corals and sea anemones often live with algae inside their cells in a symbiotic relationship. The animals give the algae nutrients and a place to live; in return, algae ...
Oct. 29, 2024 — Paleobiologists have found that the sinuses of ocean dwelling relatives of modern-day crocodiles prevented them from evolving into deep divers like whales and ...
Oct. 31, 2024 — Scientists investigating animal viruses with potential to infect humans have identified a critical protein that could enable spillover of a family of organisms called arteriviruses. In a new study, ...
Nov. 1, 2024 — New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as ...
Oct. 31, 2024 — Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation ...
Oct. 31, 2024 — Today, a research team has proposed a new reinforcement learning framework with autonomous drones to find sperm whales and predict where they will ...
Oct. 30, 2024 — Large herbivores like bison or elk have continuously lived in the Yellowstone National Park region for about 2,300 years, according to a new analysis ...
Oct. 30, 2024 — A new study sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other ...
Oct. 29, 2024 — A groundbreaking, nine-year study has revealed that elephants approaching small-scale farms in Kenya avoid beehive fences housing live honey bees up ...
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Nov. 6, 2024 — An epidemiological study found that 56 percent of a large breeding colony of Caspian terns died from a 2023 outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at Rat Island in Washington state. ...
Oct. 31, 2024 — Since wolves returned to Germany 20 years ago, they have spread quickly in many parts of the country. The rapid increase in the number of wolves was due to high survival and reproduction rates in ...
Alcohol Consumption Among Non-Human Animals May Not Be as Rare as Previously Thought, Say Ecologists
Oct. 30, 2024 — Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving 'drunk' after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ethanol has been assumed to be rare and accidental. Ecologists now ...
Oct. 30, 2024 — Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 ...
Oct. 30, 2024 — It would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare, a new study ...
Oct. 29, 2024 — Discoveries that impact lifespan and healthspan in fruit flies are usually tested in mice before being considered potentially relevant in humans, a process that is expensive and time intensive. A ...
Oct. 29, 2024 — Weddell seals in Erebus Bay, Antarctica, may look like couch potatoes when they are resting on ice. However, these seals, which are the southernmost population of the southernmost living mammals, are ...
Oct. 29, 2024 — New research has revealed that species that are more social live longer and produce offspring for a greater time-span. This is the first study on this topic which spans the animal kingdom, from ...
Oct. 28, 2024 — Red deer may become less sociable as they grow old to reduce the risk of picking up diseases, while older house sparrows seem to have fewer social interactions as their peers die off, according to ...
Oct. 28, 2024 — Once abundant, the massive, colorful clam is now locally extinct in many regions, with a critical drop in population due to overfishing and climate ...
Oct. 28, 2024 — Becoming less sociable protects older monkeys from getting ill, new research ...
Oct. 28, 2024 — A new study shows the remarkable adaptability of the critically endangered Cat Ba langurs. Despite low genetic diversity, the langurs have retained key genetic traits that help them survive in their ...
Oct. 28, 2024 — A strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus found in a Texas dairy worker who was infected this spring was able to spread among ferrets through the air, although inefficiently, and killed 100% of infected ...
Oct. 28, 2024 — Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a new study. That means more animals are on the menu across southern Florida, where the nonnative, invasive snakes ...
Oct. 25, 2024 — Drosophila is one of the most thoroughly studied lab animals -- with the exception of the female reproductive tract. Now a team of biologists has taken the first deep look at the Drosophila uterus ...
Oct. 25, 2024 — What is the 'most Canadian' animal? Spoiler: it's not the beaver, or the moose. A new study ranks species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary ...
Oct. 25, 2024 — Researchers reveal new insights into the complex evolutionary history behind the distinctive upright posture of modern placental and marsupial mammals, showing the transition was surprisingly complex ...
Oct. 25, 2024 — For all its pervasiveness and the efforts to study it, cancer is still somewhat of a mystery. Why do some animals get it at a higher rate than others? This is the question at the heart of Peto's ...
Oct. 24, 2024 — Male birds help their parents less than females because they're too busy scouting for new places to live and breed, a study ...
Oct. 24, 2024 — Decades after it was first found in Japan, a crustacean species with unique black-and-white coloring resembling a panda has been confirmed to be new to ...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
- Alcohol Consumption Among Non-Human Animals May Not Be as Rare as Previously Thought, Say Ecologists
- Ancient DNA Brings to Life History of the Iconic Aurochs, Whose Tale Is Intertwined With Climate Change and Human Culture
- It's Not to Be. Universe Too Short for Shakespeare Typing Monkeys
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
- Crunching Fruit Fly and Human Data Via Machine Learning and Systems Biology Results in the Identification of Key Metabolites That Impact Lifespan in Both Species
- Weddell Seals in the Antarctic Strategically Time Their Most Extreme Dives to Maximize Foraging
- More Social Species Live Longer
Monday, October 28, 2024
- What Animal Societies Can Teach Us About Aging
- Giant Clam Declared Critically Endangered After the Latest Assessment
- Keeping Fewer Friends Protects Aging Monkeys from Diseases
- Why Langurs Drink Salt Water
- H5N1 Virus Isolated from Infected Dairy Worker Is 100% Lethal in Ferrets, but Does Not Appear to Be Circulating in Nature Anymore
- Pythons Can Swallow Even Bigger Prey Than Scientists Realized
Friday, October 25, 2024
- Invisible Anatomy in the Fruit Fly Uterus
- Move Along, Moose: Study Reveals the 'most Canadian' Animals
- How Mammals Got Their Stride
- Researchers Complete the Largest Compilation of Cancer Prevalence Across Vertebrates
Thursday, October 24, 2024
- Bird Study Finds Sons Help Their Parents Less Than Daughters Because They're Scouting Future Prospects
- Crustacean With Panda-Like Coloring Confirmed to Be a New Species
- Study of Chick Peeps Could Improve Understanding of Animal Emotions
- Marri Trees a Lifeline for Many Native Bee Species in Biodiversity Hotspot
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
- Dolphins Sense Military Sonar at Much Lower Levels Than Regulators Predict
- Polar Bears' Exposure to Pathogens Is Increasing as Their Environment Changes
- Fossils Unveil How Southern Europe's Ecosystem Changed Through Glacial-Interglacial Stages
- Paleontologists Discover Colorado 'swamp Dweller' That Lived Alongside Dinosaurs
- Saving the Bats: Researchers Find Bacteria, Fungi on Bat Wings That Could Help Fight Deadly White-Nose Syndrome
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
- From Catwoman to Han Solo, Newly Discovered Wasps Named After Famous Thieves
- Paws of Polar Bears Sustaining Ice-Related Injuries in a Warming Arctic
Monday, October 21, 2024
- Turtle Genome Provides New Clues on the Evolution of Vertebrates
- Can Snake Research Help Explain Human Digestion?
Friday, October 18, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 2024
- Providencia Rustigianii Has Virulence Gene Akin to Salmonella's
- Environmental DNA and Epidemics in Wood Frogs
- Plastic Pollution Sounds Just Like Food to Deep-Diving Whales
- Microplastics Detected in Dolphin Breath
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
- Rangers Lead Ground-Breaking Effort to Monitor Uganda's Lion Population in Critical Stronghold
- Tube Sock-Like Skunk Covers More Ground Than Deer, Impacted by Winter Weather, Study Finds
- Male Mice Use Female Mice to Distract Aggressors and Avoid Conflict
Friday, October 11, 2024
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
- Stressed Bees Lack the Buzz in Life
- Adding Fall Blooming Plants May Help Both Managed and Wild Bees in Cities
- Dogs Contaminate Ponds With Parasite Medications
Monday, October 7, 2024
Friday, October 4, 2024
Thursday, October 3, 2024
- Ant Agriculture Began 66 Million Years Ago in the Aftermath of the Asteroid That Doomed the Dinosaurs
- The True Global Impact of Species-Loss Caused by Humans Is Far Greater Than Expected
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- Study of Monkey Fossils Found in Cave Sheds Light on the Animals' Extinction Centuries Ago
- Bottlenose Dolphins 'smile' At Each Other While Playing
- Snakes in the City: Ten Years of Wildlife Rescues Reveal Insights Into Human-Reptile Interactions
- Do Coyotes Have Puppy Dog Eyes? New Study Reveals Wild Canines Share Dog's Famous Expression
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Monday, September 30, 2024
- Traveling Population Wave in Canada Lynx
- Syrian Hamsters Reveal Genetic Secret to Hibernation
- The Vikings Were Part of a Global Network Trading in Ivory from Greenland
Friday, September 27, 2024
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- Pigs May Be Transmission Route of Rat Hepatitis E to Humans
- Drone Footage Provides New Insight Into Gray Whales' Acrobatic Feeding Behavior
- Lack of Food -- Not Money -- Drives Poaching in East African National Parks, Study Finds
- These Tadpoles Have Discovered a Unique Way of Not Contaminating Their Water Supply: Not Pooping
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Monday, September 23, 2024
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Thursday, September 19, 2024
- Researchers Discover Gene Variants That Determine Speed of Graying in Horses
- How Do Coexisting Animals Find Enough to Eat? Biologists Unlock Insights Into Foraging Habits in Yellowstone
- What's for Dinner? Scientists Unearth Key Clues to Cuisine of Resident Killer Whales
- Are Cows Pickier Than Goats?
- Genetic Tracing at the Huanan Seafood Market Further Supports COVID Animal Origins
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
- South African Rock Art Possibly Inspired by Long-Extinct Species
- If You Build It, Will They Come? Wildlife Corridors Need Smarter Design
- Another New Wasp Species Discovered
- Early Dingoes Are Related to Dogs from New Guinea and East Asia
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
- 'Scuba-Diving' Lizards Use Bubble to Breathe Underwater and Avoid Predators
- Fruit Flies' Visual Navigation Tactics Differ by Environment
- An Unexpected Result: The Mammalian Inner Ear Is a Striking Example of Convergent Evolution
- Scientists from 33 European Countries Join Forces to Generate Reference Genomes for the Continent's Rich Biological Diversity
Monday, September 16, 2024
- New Species of Wasp 'hidden in Plain Sight' Discovered by Researchers
- 'Food Theft' Among Seabirds Could Be Transmission Point for Deadly Avian Flu
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
- Flightless Parrot in New Zealand Developed Different Feather Colors to Evade Predatory Birds
- Promoting Horse Welfare With an Intestinal Disease Screening Method
Monday, September 9, 2024
Friday, September 6, 2024
Thursday, September 5, 2024
- State-by-State Data Boosts Bird Conservation Planning
- Researchers Find Ideal Place to Take Reptiles' Pulse Rate
- For Many Animals Sleep Is a Social Activity, but It's Usually Studied as an Individual Process
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
- Miniature Treadmills Accelerate Studies of Insects Walking
- How Earth's Most Intense Heat Wave Ever Impacted Life in Antarctica
- Both Cats and Dogs Often Enjoy Playing Fetch With Their Owners
- Providing Blooms All Season Long May Be the Key to Attracting Pollinators, No Matter What Landscape Your Garden Is Near
- Kidney Disease in Cats: High-Quality Feline iPSCs Generated Without Genetic Footprint
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
- Infertility Challenges Amongst Endangered Wild Songbird Population Revealed in New Study
- Researchers Give Adult Zebra Finches Back Their Ability to Learn New Songs
- Rein Tension May Affect Horse Behavior