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UrduSwedish and New Zealand scientists shed new light on demise of two extinct New Zealand songbirds They may not have been seen for the past 50 and 110 years, but an international study into their extinction has provided answers to…
Tag: ZOOLOGY/VETERINARY SCIENCE
How humans have shaped dogs’ brains
Findings suggest that selective breeding has altered brain anatomy in dogs
How bees live with bacteria
An apple plantation in spring. The trees are in full bloom. But to ensure that they also yield in autumn, workers have to do a real fluff job for weeks: each individual flower is manually pollinated with brushes – because…
These albino lizards are the world’s first gene-edited reptiles
Meet the world’s first gene-edited reptiles: albino lizards roughly the size of your index finger. Researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 to make the lizards, providing a technique for gene editing outside of major animal models. In their study, publishing August 27 in…
How to tell if you’ve found Mr. or Mrs. Right? For lemurs, it’s in their B.O.
Lemurs can smell whether a mate’s immune genes are a good match
Crows consciously control their calls
Crows can voluntarily control the release and onset of their calls, suggesting that songbird vocalizations are under cognitive control, according to a study published August 27 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Katharina Brecht of the University of Tübingen,…
The genealogy of important broiler ancestor revealed
A new study examines the historical and genetic origins of the White Plymouth Rock chicken, an important contributor to today’s meat chickens (broilers). Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden, The Livestock Conservancy and Virginia Tech in the USA have used…
Northern white rhino eggs successfully fertilized
After successfully harvesting 10 eggs from the world’s last two northern white rhinos, Najin and Fatu, on August 22nd in Kenya, the international consortium of scientists and conservationists announces that 7 out of the 10 eggs (4 from Fatu and…
Saving sage-grouse by relocation
Moving can be tough, but eventually most of us acclimate to new surroundings. That’s true for humans, and research from Washington State University shows it’s the same for sage-grouse too. A team of scientists successfully moved sage-grouse, a threatened bird…
How the herring adapted to the light environment in the Baltic Sea
The evolutionary process that occurs when a species colonizes a new environment provides an opportunity to explore the mechanisms underlying genetic adaptation, which is essential knowledge for understanding evolution and the maintenance of biodiversity. An international team of scientists, led…
Successful egg harvest breaks new ground in saving the northern white rhinoceros
There are only two northern white rhinos left worldwide, both of them female. Saving this representative of megafauna from extinction seems impossible under these circumstances, yet an international consortium of scientists and conservationists just completed a procedure that could enable…
Bloodsucker discovered: First North American medicinal leech described in over 40 years
Museum collections reveal the new leech has hidden in plain sight for decades
Rare antelopes and black cats
Tanzania is home to a very elusive antelope species that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. According to the Red List, it can be classified as endangered. The first photograph of one of these antelopes was taken by…
Males of a feather flock together
Göttingen behavioral scientists tested biological principle on free-living Assamese macaques
What a group of bizarre-looking bats can tell us about the evolution of mammals
Bats with skulls and teeth adapted to a wide range of diets are helping scientists understand how major groups of mammals first evolved. ***A video quiz of the bats is available to embed from: https:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=…
Flashlight fish use bioluminescence to school at night
Flashlight fish use their bioluminescent organs to school at night – and only a few need actively flash to maintain the group, according to a study published August 14, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by David Gruber from…