But there's more to this unexpected mutualistic relationship than that. These species of spider and frog have been found in the same area, and even share the same burrows. The frogs use the ...

The secondary-school pupil is said to suffer from 'species dysphoria', which is when someone claims their body belongs to a ...

Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm ...

We are making additions to: Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke 2014 (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Download ...

On the freezing waves of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, researchers aboard the ARSV Laurence M. Gould dropped a trawling net into the water. They were hoping to catch zooplankton, but when ...

Researchers predict that 12.7% of marine teleost fish species are at risk of extinction, up fivefold from the International Union for Conservation of Nature's prior estimate of 2.5%. Their report ...

Scientists found a “large”-headed animal in a burrow under some rocks in Thailand and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Wanchai, Rujirawan, Murdoch, Aksornneam, Promnun ...

A monthlong survey of mountain ecosystems in the remote seas of the southeastern Pacific Ocean has not only turned up a never-before-seen seamount but also revealed many species of sea life ...

The feat moved the species from a “critically endangered" classification to “endangered" and, Fritz says, is the first attempt to reintroduce a continentally extinct migratory bird species.

The heart is a fist-sized organ in the chest that is responsible for pumping blood. It has four chambers: two upper chambers (atria) and two lower chambers (ventricles). These chambers are separated ...

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