46+ min ago   (568+ words) Beneath the sun-baked soils of eastern and southern Africa, a family of rodents has quietly rewritten the rules of mammalian life. Naked mole-rats resist cancer, tolerate near-anoxic conditions and barely age. Damaraland mole-rats dig elaborate tunnel networks and live in…...

2+ hour, 59+ 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....

5+ hour, 11+ min ago   (88+ words) One of the most lethal cancers in dogs has long frustrated veterinary oncologists with its stubborn one-size-fits-all treatment approach. Now, a research team at the University of São Paulo has shown that canine splenic hemangiosarcoma—a rapidly progressive cancer of…...

5+ hour, 21+ min ago   (695+ words) For nearly two decades, behavioural ecologists have been fascinated by the fact that animals are not simply bundles of independent traits. A bold individual tends to be an aggressive one; a curious animal often takes more risks. These consistent suites…...

5+ hour, 36+ min ago   (681+ words) Across the flooded fields and scrubby foothills of South Asia lives a frog that most people, including many biologists, would struggle to tell apart from its close relatives. The burrowing frog Sphaerotheca maskeyi, a medium-sized member of the family Dicroglossidae,…...

6+ hour, 57+ 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…...

7+ hour, 26+ min ago   (113+ words) A landmark effort to systematically classify brain tumors in dogs has revealed striking similarities between canine and human meningioma, while exposing a crucial flaw: the grading system doctors rely on for human patients does not reliably predict outcomes in dogs....

8+ hour, 55+ min ago   (607+ words) Deep inside the mammalian placenta, a quiet genetic tug-of-war shapes how much a growing fetus asks of its mother....

16+ hour, 51+ min ago   (90+ words) {“title”:”Gut Microbes Shape Bat Immunity Differently in Males and Females”,”excerpt”:”A new study of the lesser long-nosed bat reveals that gut bacterial communities are linked to systemic humoral immunity in patterns that differ sharply between males and migrating…...

20+ hour, 54+ 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…...