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Plants & Animals Dec 19, 2023

Newly discovered hedgehog species diverged from others more than a million years ago

Researchers at Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China, have announced the discovery of a new species within the hedgehog genus Mesechinus. The eastern China hedgehog species was found to be distinct from other regional hedgehogs ...

Cell & Microbiology Jul 24, 2023

SeqCode provides a path to name uncultivated prokaryotes

Most prokaryotes have never been isolated in pure culture and cannot be named under the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP). However, many studies have described uncultured bacteria and archaea though ...

Evolution Feb 14, 2023

7 new spider species discovered in caves in Israel

In a new study conducted by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Madison-Wisconsin, seven new species of funnel web spiders (Agelenidae, Tegenaria), unique to caves in Israel, were discovered. ...

Biotechnology Oct 21, 2022

How to 3D print the fossils of the great museums of the world

Doug Boyer was a hit at his daughter's kindergarten show and tell.

Social Sciences Jun 16, 2022

Public database of standardized linguistic features

Is it true that many languages in the world use words similar to "mama" and "papa" for "mother" and "father"? If a language uses only one word for both "arm" and "hand," does it also use only one word for both "leg" and "foot"? ...

Plants & Animals Jan 5, 2022

Study enriches species diversity, phylogeny and evolution regularity of hydnaceae

The family Hydnaceae is a significant group of fungi in Cantharellales. some genera with lichenicolous or lichenised nutritional modes are also embedded in Hydnaceae, they all play important roles in the material cycle of ...

Plants & Animals Mar 23, 2021

North American deserts are a biodiversity hotspot for butterflies

By comparing the genetic diversity of butterflies in North America, researchers reporting in the journal iScience on March 23 found that the array of different evolutionary distinct groups of butterflies is particularly high ...

Plants & Animals Jan 19, 2021

A species of previously undiscovered cave bug provides the testimony of an ancient fauna

An international study with the participation of the Natural History Museum (UV) has made the first record of a cave-dwelling Kinnaridae from the Old World. It is Valenciolenda fadaforesta, a species found in Valencian caves ...

Bio & Medicine Sep 4, 2020

Researchers identify nanobody that may prevent COVID-19 infection

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a small neutralizing antibody, a so-called nanobody, that has the capacity to block SARS-CoV-2 from entering human cells. The researchers believe this nanobody ...

Plants & Animals Aug 27, 2020

Penis bones, echolocation calls, and genes reveal new kinds of bats

If you've ever seen a bat flying around at sunset, chances are good it was a vesper bat. They're the biggest bat family, made up of 500 species, found on every continent except Antarctica. And most of them look a lot alike—they're ...

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