Two new symbiotic porcelain crab species have been described. Considered one of them, from the South China Sea of Vietnam, inhabits the compact tube-like shelters constructed by the polychaete worm with different organisms. The opposite inhabits the intertidal vermetid snail formations within the Colombian Caribbean.

A brand new examine by biologists explains how sexual cooperation and bonding evolves in chook species that type pair bonds.

Mapping the evolution of advanced uranium oxide species has sensible purposes from Mars exploration to nuclear proliferation detection.

Fossils of a giant new predatory species in half-a-billion-year-old rocks have been uncovered from Kootenay Nationwide Park within the Canadian Rockies. This new species has rake-like claws and a pineapple-slice-shaped mouth on the entrance of an unlimited head, and it sheds gentle on the variety of the earliest family of ...

A shady refuge on a sizzling day could possibly be greater than a easy consolation in a warming world. Discovering a cooler spot would possibly save a number of species that may in any other case go extinct because of world warming, in keeping with a brand new evaluation.

A distant island within the Caribbean may supply clues as to how invasive species are capable of colonize new territories after which thrive in them, a brand new examine suggests.

A persistent query amongst city ecology researchers has been the long-term influence of urbanization on chook species biodiversity. Particularly, they ponder whether the parts of cities with increased variety are merely exhibiting an 'extinction debt' -- populations doomed to extinction however not but disappeared -- or if different components similar ...

Predator-prey equilibria are being disrupted by local weather change, in response to a brand new examine.

Scientists simply found six new species of bristlenose catfish within the Amazon. In an evolutionary transfer that takes 'catfishing' to a complete new, form of candy stage, the males have tentacled faces to draw females. The tentacles appear to be eggs, and when females see a male with a tentacled ...

As coral species die off, they might be leaving a loss of life spiral of their wake: Their absence could possibly be sapping life from the corals that survive. In a brand new research, when remoted from different species, corals bought weak, died off or grew in fragile buildings. The ...