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Archaeology Apr 24, 2019

Meet Callichimaera perplexa, the platypus of crabs

The crab family just got a bunch of new cousins—including a 95-million-year-old chimera species that will force scientists to rethink the definition of a crab.

Plants & Animals Apr 3, 2019

How understanding animal behavior can support wildlife conservation

Researchers from EPFL and the University of Zurich have developed a model that uses data from sensors worn by meerkats to gain a more detailed picture of how animals behave in the wild.

Ecology Mar 28, 2019

RIT, zoo researchers capturing sights, sounds and insects of Madagascar

Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology and Seneca Park Zoo are developing a virtual reality gaming environment that will let zoogoers experience a Madagascar rainforest ecosystem. They recently journeyed to the ...

Plants & Animals Mar 20, 2019

New short-tailed whip scorpion species discovered in Amazon

A new species of Surazomus, which belongs to the class Arachnida and the order Schizomida, has been discovered in the eastern Amazon, according to a study published March 20 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Gustavo ...

Evolution Mar 9, 2019

Study confirms horseshoe crabs are really relatives of spiders, scorpions

Blue-blooded and armored with 10 spindly legs, horseshoe crabs have perhaps always seemed a bit out of place.

Ecology Feb 28, 2019

Biologists capture super-creepy photos of Amazon spiders making meals of frogs, lizards

Warning to arachnophobes and the faint of heart: This is the stuff of nightmares, so you might want to proceed with caution.

Plants & Animals Feb 11, 2019

Venomous yellow scorpions are moving into Brazil's big cities – and the infestation may be unstoppable

I live in São Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil, home to some 12 million people – 20 million if you count the outskirts, which have been sprawling for three decades.

Astronomy Jan 24, 2019

As clouds fall apart, a new star is born

Using the ALMA observatory in Chile, a group of astronomers led by MPIA's Henrik Beuther has made the most detailed observation yet of the way that a giant gas cloud fragments into dense cores, which then act as the birthplaces ...

Archaeology Jan 10, 2019

Reconstruction of trilobite ancestral range in the southern hemisphere

The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record dates to 521 million years ago in the oceans of the Cambrian Period, when the continents were still inhospitable to most life forms. Few groups of animals adapted as ...

Plants & Animals Jan 8, 2019

Variable venom—why are some snakes deadlier than others?

An international collaboration led by scientists from the National University of Ireland, Galway, The University of St Andrews, Trinity College Dublin and the Zoological Society of London has uncovered why the venom of some ...

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