May 8, 2013 by Sci-News.com

A large multinational team of genetic researchers has identified three unique genetic variations that influence body size and obesity in men and women...

May 6, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new doctoral thesis by Eva-Marie Ström from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden is the first attempt ever to explore Ndengeleko, a language that...

Apr 30, 2013 by Sci-News.com

Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs in what...

Oct 30, 2012 by Natali Anderson

The elusive West African Seahorse, Hippocampus algiricus, has been filmed for the first time off the coast of Senegal by Imperial College London’s student...

Oct 4, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A professional paleontologist studying fossils in a collection at Harvard University has identified a new species of dinosaur. The newly discovered species,...

Sep 17, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of biologists has discovered a new species of monkey in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cercopithecus lomamiensis (Maurice Emetshu) The...

Sep 11, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Biologists have discovered that the Pollia condensata fruit does not get its blue color from pigment but instead uses structural color – a method of...

Aug 15, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Exciting new fossils discovered east of Lake Turkana in Kenya confirm that there were two additional species of our genus – Homo – living alongside...

Jul 31, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists has substantially increased the age at which we can trace the emergence of modern culture, all thanks to the San people...