Newly discovered virus infects bald eagles across America
Credit: UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers have discovered a previously unknown virus infecting nearly a third of America's bald eagle ...
Tag: Zoology/Veterinary Science
Study helps pinpoint what makes species vulnerable to environmental change
Credit: (Photo by Umesh Srinivasan, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) The fabled use of canaries in coal ...
Warmer nights prompt forest birds to lay eggs earlier in spring
Credit: Gergana Daskalova As climate change continues to cause temperatures to rise, the breeding patterns of birds such as blue ...
Researchers uncover novel virus type that may shed light on viral evolution
Credit: FIGURE ADAPTED FROM Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 75 (2019) 103975. © 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V. Viruses are non-living ...
Alfalfa and potassium: It’s complicated
Credit: Deborah Samac Has anyone ever told you to eat a banana when you have a muscle cramp or eye ...
Monkeys can also thank their body for vocal development, not only their brain
Credit: University of Southern Denmark Normally we think about the brain as an all-controlling organ that guides the development of ...
Key uncertainties identified for models of mosquito distribution in the US
Understanding model limitations could improve strategies to deal with mosquito-borne diseasesCredit: CDC/ Prof. Frank Hadley Collins. A computational analysis has ...
Reef fish caring for their young are taken advantage of by other fish
Biologists have reported the first evidence of brood parasitism in coral reef fish, finding unrelated young fish in groups of ...
Endangered black rhino expecting first calf
Credit: D. Turner, Michigan State University For the first time, there's a pregnant black rhino at the Potter Park Zoo ...
The deeper these octopuses live, the wartier their skin
Credit: Ocean Networks Canada/ CSSF-ROPOS Deep beneath the ocean's surface, surprisingly cute warty pink octopuses creep along the seafloor. But ...
Genome-edited bull passes on hornless trait to calves
Study sheds light on future of genome editing in livestockCredit: Alison Van Eenennaam For the past two years, researchers at ...
Toxin promotes cattle-to-cattle transmission of deadly Escherichia coli strains
Credit: Fitzgerald SF, et al. (2019) Shiga toxin subtype 2a (Stx2a) may play a key role in promoting the colonization ...
Imprinting on mothers may drive new species formation in poison dart frogs
What do marrying one's parents, Oedipus complex have to do with evolution?Credit: STRI archives The old saying that people marry ...
How the Texas puma saved the Florida panther
Uncovering the genetic details of a conservation success storyCredit: Photo courtesy of Carlton Ward Jr. @carltonward COLUMBUS, Ohio - Scientists ...
Living a long chimpanzee life
Report on the life expectancy of captive chimpanzees in JapanCredit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- We humans may consider a ...
Hovering closer to the secrets of hummingbird flight
Credit: Todd Goodrich, University of Montana The extraordinary ability of hummingbirds to perform complex escape maneuvers will be explored for ...
Why are there no animals with three legs?
Credit: Tracy J. Thomson in BioEssays If "Why?" is the first question in science, "Why not?" must be a close ...
Researchers use drones to weigh whales
Credit: Fredrik Christiansen By measuring the body length, width and height of free-living southern right whales photographed by drones, researchers ...
Cracking how ‘water bears’ survive the extremes
Researchers discover that a protein in tiny tardigrades binds and forms a protective cloud against extreme survival threats such as ...
Purple martin migration behavior perplexes researchers
Credit: Photo by Michael Jeffords and Susan Post CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Purple martins will soon migrate south for their usual ...
