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Species is a basic taxonomy unit in biology used for defining a group of organisms that share common genetic heritage and are able to interbreed.
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DEC 31, 2018Plants & Animals
The tsunami that devastated Indonesia earlier this month did unbelievable amounts of damage to local families and commun ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 31, 2018Plants & Animals
The Madagascar pochard is a duck species so elusive that conservationists once thought it was extinct. But in 2006, a te ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 29, 2018Microbiology
There are microscopic organisms called archaea living in some of Earth's most intense environments.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 27, 2018Plants & Animals
In a sad turn of events this week, a baby female Asian elephant calf from Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium passed ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 26, 2018Plants & Animals
Olfaction, or more colloquially known as the sense of smell, is essential for coho salmon. The fish depend on their nose ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 24, 2018Plants & Animals
There exist a bevy of ways that an animal species can be driven to evolve, but one of the more controversial methods of ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 24, 2018Plants & Animals
Willow tits and other similarly small birds may have a lot to gain from finding and joining a flock early in life. A pap ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 21, 2018Genetics & Genomics
Red wolves were thought to be extinct in the wild and were listed as such in 1980. Researchers have now found red wolf D ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 19, 2018Plants & Animals
Depending on where you’re from, you may speak the same language as someone else, but with a slight accent or diale ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 19, 2018Cell & Molecular Biology
Securing information is a difficult prospect as computers become more powerful. Engineers have turned to biology.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 18, 2018Genetics & Genomics
Some people have a green thumb, but that doesn't mean that plants enjoy feeling it.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 17, 2018Plants & Animals
A new aquatic salamander species has been discovered, and researchers are almost entirely sure it matches the descriptio ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 17, 2018Genetics & Genomics
People have been desperate to learn more about the potential causes of autism, and researchers have been making some pro ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 17, 2018Plants & Animals
Although dinosaurs don’t walk the Earth with us today, they left behind a plethora of fossilized bones and remnant ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 15, 2018Videos
Learn more about how genetics and bioinformatics techniques are helping researchers to understand how microbes adapt, su ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 15, 2018Videos
At the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, the waste generated by over 700 species of animals has to be filtered out of the aqu ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 13, 2018Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have developed a new technology that will enable scientists to study biological responses to different envir ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 13, 2018Cannabis Sciences
A recent study published in the journal Genome Research Dr. Laverty and colleagues out of the University ...Written By: Amy LoriauxDEC 12, 2018Videos
While estimates about the number of species that go extinct vary widely, one thing is certain: we can list many animals ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 12, 2018Earth & The Environment
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that bioenergy crop production ma ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanDEC 11, 2018Plants & Animals
You may or may not have heard of a zombee, which is essentially a zombified bee. Zombees are bees that have been infecte ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 10, 2018Plants & Animals
Animals of all kinds change their behavior to adapt to urbanized settings, and tungara frogs are no different. New resea ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 10, 2018Neuroscience
Uncertainty and Gambling go hand-in-hand; there is never a sure bet. Researchers have identified neuronal activity in th ...Written By: Aswini KannegantiDEC 10, 2018Plants & Animals
With as much excavating as paleontologists do, it’s no surprise that they’re always happening upon new fossi ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
DEC 31, 2018
Plants & Animals
The tsunami that devastated Indonesia earlier this month did unbelievable amounts of damage to local families and commun
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 31, 2018
Plants & Animals
The Madagascar pochard is a duck species so elusive that conservationists once thought it was extinct. But in 2006, a te
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 29, 2018
Microbiology
There are microscopic organisms called archaea living in some of Earth's most intense environments.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 27, 2018
Plants & Animals
In a sad turn of events this week, a baby female Asian elephant calf from Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium passed
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 26, 2018
Plants & Animals
Olfaction, or more colloquially known as the sense of smell, is essential for coho salmon. The fish depend on their nose
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 24, 2018
Plants & Animals
There exist a bevy of ways that an animal species can be driven to evolve, but one of the more controversial methods of
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 24, 2018
Plants & Animals
Willow tits and other similarly small birds may have a lot to gain from finding and joining a flock early in life. A pap
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 21, 2018
Genetics & Genomics
Red wolves were thought to be extinct in the wild and were listed as such in 1980. Researchers have now found red wolf D
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 19, 2018
Plants & Animals
Depending on where you’re from, you may speak the same language as someone else, but with a slight accent or diale
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 19, 2018
Cell & Molecular Biology
Securing information is a difficult prospect as computers become more powerful. Engineers have turned to biology.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 18, 2018
Genetics & Genomics
Some people have a green thumb, but that doesn't mean that plants enjoy feeling it.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 17, 2018
Plants & Animals
A new aquatic salamander species has been discovered, and researchers are almost entirely sure it matches the descriptio
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 17, 2018
Genetics & Genomics
People have been desperate to learn more about the potential causes of autism, and researchers have been making some pro
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 17, 2018
Plants & Animals
Although dinosaurs don’t walk the Earth with us today, they left behind a plethora of fossilized bones and remnant
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 15, 2018
Videos
Learn more about how genetics and bioinformatics techniques are helping researchers to understand how microbes adapt, su
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 15, 2018
Videos
At the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, the waste generated by over 700 species of animals has to be filtered out of the aqu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 13, 2018
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have developed a new technology that will enable scientists to study biological responses to different envir
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 13, 2018
Cannabis Sciences
A recent study published in the journal Genome Research Dr. Laverty and colleagues out of the University
...
Written By:
Amy Loriaux
DEC 12, 2018
Videos
While estimates about the number of species that go extinct vary widely, one thing is certain: we can list many animals
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 12, 2018
Earth & The Environment
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that bioenergy crop production ma
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 11, 2018
Plants & Animals
You may or may not have heard of a zombee, which is essentially a zombified bee. Zombees are bees that have been infecte
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 10, 2018
Plants & Animals
Animals of all kinds change their behavior to adapt to urbanized settings, and tungara frogs are no different. New resea
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 10, 2018
Neuroscience
Uncertainty and Gambling go hand-in-hand; there is never a sure bet. Researchers have identified neuronal activity in th
...
Written By:
Aswini Kanneganti
DEC 10, 2018
Plants & Animals
With as much excavating as paleontologists do, it’s no surprise that they’re always happening upon new fossi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard