6+ hour, 33+ min ago   (640+ words) The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has unveiled an ambitious new fellowship designed to reshape how the next generation of animal science professionals is trained. Known as F.U.S.E....

10+ hour, 31+ min ago   (94+ words) Insects navigate their world largely through smell, relying on an intricate array of chemosensory proteins to detect everything from host plant volatiles to mating signals. Among these molecular sentinels are ionotropic receptors, or IRs, a family of receptors descended from…...

1+ day, 28+ min ago   (793+ words) Stick and leaf insects are among the most accomplished masters of disguise in the animal kingdom, but their most remarkable imitation may be the one nobody watches happen. The eggs of many phasmid species look uncannily like plant seeds, complete…...

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3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (849+ words) Coral-eating snails have long been notorious for devastating reefs across the Indo-Pacific, but scientists working in Indonesia have now caught them doing something no one had formally documented in the field before: feeding on fire coral....

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (987+ words) In the shadowed forest fragments threading through the city of Rio Branco, in the western Brazilian Amazon, a team of Brazilian researchers has quietly uncovered evidence of parasitic roundworms circulating in the blood of urban bats — including one lineage so…...

6+ day, 42+ min ago   (67+ words) In the bustling world of an ant colony, not every worker answers the call when a nestmate is in trouble. Some ants will race to free a trapped companion, pulling at its legs and digging away the sand that holds…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (110+ words) In the forested mountains of southern Italy, the gray wolf has staged one of Europe’s most remarkable recoveries, and a new study suggests that the secret to its comeback may lie in the hooves of a small, elegant deer. Researchers…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (112+ words) The echoes of a tadpole’s early life can reverberate through a frog’s entire existence, but new research suggests those echoes are far stranger than scientists anticipated. In a long-term experiment conducted on the Iberian green frog (Pelophylax perezi), researchers Francisco…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (916+ words) Few organisms on Earth enjoy the celebrity status of tardigrades. The eight-legged microscopic animals better known as water bears can survive the vacuum of space, endure near-absolute-zero temperatures and shrug off radiation doses that would kill most life forms....