Lizard skull fossil is new and ‘perplexing’ extinct species
In 2017, while browsing the fossil collections of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, University of Texas at Austin graduate…
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High-quality cat genome helps identify novel cause of dwarfism
A new and improved cat genome developed by the feline research teams at the University of Missouri and Texas A&M…
Shifts in flowering phases of plants due to reduced insect density
It still sounds unlikely today, but declines in insect numbers could well make it a frequent occurrence in the future:…
Research provides a new understanding of how a model insect species sees color
Through an effort to characterize the color receptors in the eyes of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, University of Minnesota researchers…
Endangered vaquita remain genetically healthy even in low numbers
The critically endangered vaquita has survived in low numbers in its native Gulf of California for hundreds of thousands of…
Why bats excel as viral reservoirs without getting sick
Bats act as reservoirs of numerous zoonotic viruses, including SARS-CoV, MERS CoV, Ebola virus, and — most likely — SARS-CoV-2,…
Monkey study suggests that they, like humans, may have ‘self-domesticated’
It’s not a coincidence that dogs are cuter than wolves, or that goats at a petting zoo have shorter horns…
New species of aquatic mice discovered, cousins of one of the world’s rarest mammals
Ninety-three years ago, a scientist trapped a mouse in a stream in Ethiopia. Of all the mice, rats, and gerbils…
Mosquitoes’ taste for blood traced to four types of neurons
Mosquitoes spread diseases like malaria, dengue, and yellow fever that kill at least a half a million people each year.…
Carnivores living near people feast on human food, threatening ecosystems
Ecologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that carnivores living near people can get more than half of their…