Biology News

May 29, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Entomologists have described a new butterfly species with striking olive green eye color. Ministrymon janevicroy (Robbins RK / Glassberg J.) The new species has been named the Vicroy’s Ministreak (Ministrymon janevicroy) after Jane Vicroy Scott, wife of Dr Jeffrey Glassberg, President of the North American Butterfly Association, who discovered the new species. Although specimens of Ministrymon janevicroy were deposited in the Smithsonian entomology...

May 29, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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...

May 28, 2013 by Sci-News.com

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...

May 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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

May 27, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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

May 27, 2013 by Sci-News.com

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

May 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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

May 21, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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...

May 20, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

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