Biology News

University of Alberta researchers led by Dr Catherine La Farge have brought back to life 400 year old frozen mosses recovered from melting glaciers in...

A team of arachnologists from the Sichuan University and the Institute of Zoology in Beijing has discovered two new species in the spider genera Mysmena...

Biologists from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have described a new species of black bass from river systems in the southeastern...

A team of marine researchers from New Zealand has used remote operated vehicles to collect specimens of sea pen previously unknown to science. Acanthoptilum...

A novel aerobic, gram-positive bacterium that is able to thrive at minus 15 degrees Celsius  - the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth...

German entomologists Dr Bernhard Seifert from the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz and Dr Sabine Frohschammer from the University of Regensburg...

Entomologists Dr John Huber from the Canadian National Collection of Insects and Dr John Noyes from the Natural History Museum, UK, have described a new...

A team of researchers reporting in the journal PLoS ONE has detected the influenza H1N1 virus in Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris) off...