A hitherto unknown antibiotic-resistant micro organism species, in the identical household as E. coli and Salmonella spp., has been discovered and categorised in Sweden. The proposed taxonomic title of the species -- the primary of the brand new genus -- is Scandinavium goeteborgense, after town of Gothenburg, Sweden, the place ...

What makes for an endangered species classification is not at all times apparent.

Orchid bees are grasp perfumers. Males gather chemical compounds to concoct perfumes distinctive to their particular species. Researchers hyperlink the evolution of sexual signaling in orchid bees to a single gene formed by species' fragrance preferences.

Although local weather change is turning into one of many biggest threats to the Earth's already burdened ecosystems, it is probably not probably the most extreme risk right this moment for all species, say authors of a brand new report on the consequences of deforestation on two lemur species in ...

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.