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Mammals
Mammals: warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class, distinguishable by the hair or fur, secretion of milk by females for the nourishment of the young, and, at times, the birth of live young.
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JUL 19, 2016Plants & Animals
Humans aren’t the only species walking the Earth that are capable of mourning the deceased. Despite the fact that ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 12, 2016Plants & Animals
Sumatran tigers are a very rare species of tiger, currently considered to be critically endangered, and the World Wildli ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 11, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
It’s long been accepted that cephalopods – such as squids and octopuses – are unable to see color beca ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 05, 2016Plants & Animals
Despite its somewhat exotic sounding name, the jaguarundi is one of the most wide-ranging cats in the Americas - living ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 04, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Remember Dolly, the world’s first cloned mammal? Nature takes a look back with the scientists who created her in t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 04, 2016Neuroscience
The neuroscience behind medications for psychiatric conditions like depression, or anxiety is complex and often the subj ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 01, 2016Videos
Biologists in Sri Lanka have published the first documented evidence of dwarfism in an adult wild animal. A male Asian e ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 25, 2016Plants & Animals
What if we told you that giant pandas don’t really have the high metabolisms that you’ve been told they had ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 21, 2016Videos
A rodent found only on a tiny island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been declared extinct. Zoology experts and en ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 20, 2016Plants & Animals
The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland announced last week that they will move their eight Atlantic Bottlenose dol ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 19, 2016Microbiology
A new study published in Trends in Parasitology reveals patterns that could be used to predict the locations of future z ...Written By: Kerry EvansMAY 28, 2016Videos
Would you be able to survive 2.5 million years ago? At the time, Earth was in the Pleistocene epoch. This geological epo ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetMAY 23, 2016Videos
Research ecologist Charlie Christafilly has worked for the last thirty years in Olympia, Washington at the US Forest Ser ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 07, 2016Plants & Animals
The internet went a little crazy when it saw what appeared to be an unidentified creature in fuzzy photographs shared vi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 16, 2016Videos
White blood cells (leukocytes) are immune system cells that protect the body against diseases and foreign invaders. Whil ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetAPR 14, 2016Videos
The park rangers of Virunga National Park, a 7,800 square kilometer reserve in the eastern part of the Democratic Republ ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 13, 2016Cancer
Scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts are launching a cancer tissue repository for use ...APR 12, 2016Earth & The Environment
One million square kilometers. That’s a big number. And an even bigger accomplishment, if the government of French ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 16, 2016Plants & Animals
New research around the Madagascar oceanic regions conducted in November of last year suggests that a rare species of wh ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 11, 2016Plants & Animals
Are some species of birds just as smart as apes? It seems like a stretch since apes have significantly larger bra ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 08, 2016Microbiology
A new cell-based model of the human placenta could help explain how pathogens cross from mother to unborn child. The res ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)MAR 03, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have developed a new, less expensive, and faster method to determine the DNA sequence of the male-specific Y ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)FEB 29, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
In a breakthrough first, scientists in China reported to have turned mouse stem cells into functional sperm-like cells, ...
JUL 19, 2016
Plants & Animals
Humans aren’t the only species walking the Earth that are capable of mourning the deceased. Despite the fact that
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 12, 2016
Plants & Animals
Sumatran tigers are a very rare species of tiger, currently considered to be critically endangered, and the World Wildli
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 11, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
It’s long been accepted that cephalopods – such as squids and octopuses – are unable to see color beca
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 05, 2016
Plants & Animals
Despite its somewhat exotic sounding name, the jaguarundi is one of the most wide-ranging cats in the Americas - living
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 04, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Remember Dolly, the world’s first cloned mammal? Nature takes a look back with the scientists who created her in t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 04, 2016
Neuroscience
The neuroscience behind medications for psychiatric conditions like depression, or anxiety is complex and often the subj
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 01, 2016
Videos
Biologists in Sri Lanka have published the first documented evidence of dwarfism in an adult wild animal. A male Asian e
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 25, 2016
Plants & Animals
What if we told you that giant pandas don’t really have the high metabolisms that you’ve been told they had
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 21, 2016
Videos
A rodent found only on a tiny island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been declared extinct. Zoology experts and en
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 20, 2016
Plants & Animals
The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland announced last week that they will move their eight Atlantic Bottlenose dol
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 19, 2016
Microbiology
A new study published in Trends in Parasitology reveals patterns that could be used to predict the locations of future z
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
MAY 28, 2016
Videos
Would you be able to survive 2.5 million years ago? At the time, Earth was in the Pleistocene epoch. This geological epo
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
MAY 23, 2016
Videos
Research ecologist Charlie Christafilly has worked for the last thirty years in Olympia, Washington at the US Forest Ser
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 07, 2016
Plants & Animals
The internet went a little crazy when it saw what appeared to be an unidentified creature in fuzzy photographs shared vi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 16, 2016
Videos
White blood cells (leukocytes) are immune system cells that protect the body against diseases and foreign invaders. Whil
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
APR 14, 2016
Videos
The park rangers of Virunga National Park, a 7,800 square kilometer reserve in the eastern part of the Democratic Republ
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 13, 2016
Cancer
Scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts are launching a cancer tissue repository for use
...
APR 12, 2016
Earth & The Environment
One million square kilometers. That’s a big number. And an even bigger accomplishment, if the government of French
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 16, 2016
Plants & Animals
New research around the Madagascar oceanic regions conducted in November of last year suggests that a rare species of wh
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 11, 2016
Plants & Animals
Are some species of birds just as smart as apes? It seems like a stretch since apes have significantly larger bra
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 08, 2016
Microbiology
A new cell-based model of the human placenta could help explain how pathogens cross from mother to unborn child. The res
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 03, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have developed a new, less expensive, and faster method to determine the DNA sequence of the male-specific Y
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
FEB 29, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In a breakthrough first, scientists in China reported to have turned mouse stem cells into functional sperm-like cells,
...