Tag: Zoology/Veterinary Science

January 7, 2020

Comparing microbiomes in 900 vertebrate species revealed that bats have guts more like birds than other mammalsCredit: UC San Diego ...

Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes — probably because they can fly

January 7, 2020

Credit: Holly Lutz At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and "probiotic-fortified" has become the newest health ...

Study shows animal life thriving around Fukushima

January 6, 2020

Researchers document more than 20 species in nuclear accident zoneCredit: UGA Nearly a decade after the nuclear accident in Fukushima, ...

Starry eyes on the reef: Color-changing brittle stars can see

January 2, 2020

Credit: Lauren Sumner-Rooney Scientists have shown for the first time that brittle stars use vision to guide them through vibrant ...

Stanford study finds whales use stealth to feed on fish

Credit: Cascadia Research Collective; NMFS Permit 16111 Small fish are speedy and easy to scare. So how is it that ...

Climate change not the only threat to vulnerable species, habitat matters

UMass Amherst ecologist and team: Madagascar's rainforest could be lost this century, threatening endangered lemursCredit: Andrea Baden/Hunter College AMHERST, Mass. ...

Asian black bears’ smart strategy for seasonal energy balance

Energy balance of Asian black bearsCredit: Shinsuke Koike/TUAT A collaboration led by scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ...

NUS researchers uncover how fish get their shape

Sculpting of fish muscle requires genetic and mechanical informationCredit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore The diverse colours, shapes and ...

The birds and the bees and the bearded dragons

Evolution of a sex-determination systemCredit: Arthur Georges, University of Canberra Sex is an ancient and widespread phenomenon, with over 99% ...

Bark beetles control pathogenic fungi

Credit: Gernot Kunz Bark beetles control Ants and honeybees share nests of hundreds or thousands of individuals in a very ...

Berlin’s bright sky isn’t a bat’s thing

Credit: ISS047-E-29989 courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis People can hardly imagine a city without night-time street lighting. But ...

Corpus luteum cells of cats successfully cultivated and comprehensively characterized

Another milestone in the elucidation of the phenomenon of long-lived corpus lutea in lynxesCredit: Iberian Lynx Ex-situ Conservation Programme The ...

Healing rays: Whoopi’s quick to mend

Credit: Migration Media 'Whoopi' the manta ray - a regular visitor to Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef - has helped University ...

A step closer to understanding evolution — mitochondrial division conserved across species