Biology News

The rings of preserved kauri trees, hidden in New Zealand's peat bogs, hold the secret to climate fluctuations spanning back to the end of the last Ice Age

"Blindsnakes are not very pretty, are rarely noticed, and are often mistaken for earthworms," admits Blair Hedges, professor of biology at Penn State University. "Nonetheless, they tell a very interesting evolutionary story

It frequently happens in science that what you throw away turns out to be most valuable. It happened to Deepak Nagrath, but not for long

DNA from a finger bone of a female found in southern Siberia.reveals a previously unknown human species, which lived about 48,000 to 30,000 years ago in the Altai Mountains in Central Asia

Spiders and silkworms are masters of materials science, but scientists are finally catching up

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have discovered a previously unknown cellular "switch" that may provide researchers with a new means of triggering programmed cell death, findings with implications for treating cancer

A genetic study has found that small domestic dogs probably originated in the Middle East more than 12,000 years ago

he next 10 to 20 years could be extremely significant for restoring wild populations of American bison to their original range, including the Canadian Rockies

The King Cobra continues to weave its charm with researchers identifying a protein in its venom with the potential for new drug discovery and to advance understanding of disease mechanisms

Between the grains of sand on the sea floor there is an unknown and unexplored world. Pierre De Wit at Gothenburg University knows this well, and has found new animal species on the Great Barrier Reef