Biology News

t's been known for decades that animals such as chimpanzees seek out medicinal herbs to treat their diseases. But in recent years, the list of animal pharmacists has grown much longer

A University of Alberta researcher has identified some of the strongest evidence ever found that dinosaurs could paddle long distances

Some 30 million years ago, Ganges river dolphins diverged from other toothed whales, making them one of the oldest species of aquatic mammals that use echolocation, or biosonar, to navigate and find food

The giant tarantula is as big as a human face. Its legs, which have unique daffodil-yellow markings, span a massive 20cm (eight inches). The arachnid also has a distinctive pink band around its body

Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers have unveiled a life-like, autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man, 5 foot 7 inches in length and weighing 170 pounds

Placodonts were among the first marine reptiles. With their trademark crushing teeth, they fed on shellfish and crustaceans

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria

It has long been believed that male lions are dependent on females when it comes to hunting. But new evidence suggests that male lions are, in fact, very successful hunters in their own right

Canada's 505 million year-old Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park, have yielded yet another major scientific discovery -- this time with the unearthing of a strange spaghetti-shaped creatur

At the end of the last ice age, a population of polar bears was stranded by the receding ice on a few islands in southeastern Alaska