Higher acidity of the ocean could destroy a fish's ability to detect predators and increases aggression.
Computer simulations indicate that the past currents around Madagascar would have allowed the migration of mammals to the island.
Microbial communities in the deep sea are dominated by rare species represented by single to few individuals.
The power law equation that matches the metabolic rates of individual animals also appears to match those for insect colonies.
Tiny geolocators help reveal how the Arctic tern makes a 70,000 km round-trip every year.
Bornaviruses can also insert their genes into the genomes of mammals.
Even identical twins may not agree that a G-spot exists.
In California's Jurupa Mountains, there is a very unusual group of tree - a Palmer's oak, which first sprouted from an acorn around 13,000 years ago.
The BAK1 gene, associated with apoptosis, exists in multiple variants in our bodies.
It turns out that ovaries can only remain ovaries by constantly suppressing their ability to become male. Silence a single gene, and adult ovaries turn into testes.
