13-12-11 The home team holds the advantage over visitors -- at least in the plant world. However, a mere handful of genetic adaptations could even the playing field. In the current issue of the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences, Michigan State...

13-12-09 For years, scientists have believed that preserving more species, no matter which ones, is a key component to enhancing how well an ecosystem performs. Not so fast, say scientists at Duke University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston. In...

13-12-09 In our youth we are strong and healthy and then we weaken and die -- that's probably how most would describe what aging is all about. But, in nature, the phenomenon of aging shows an unexpected diversity of patterns and is altogether rather strange,...

13-11-29 Researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on November 27 have identified a cryptic（神秘的） new species of wild cat living in Brazil. The discovery is a reminder of just how little scientists still know about the natural world...

13-11-26 Two new beautiful wasp species are added to the rare pompilid（蛛蜂） genus Abernessia, which now contains a total of only four known species. The two new species A. prima and A. capixaba are believed to be endemic（地方性的） for Brazil alongside t...

13-11-26 The lowland tropics were once though filled with widespread species, while moderate and higher elevations were thought to contain species with more restricted distributions. That idea is turning out to be partially incorrect. Widespread species now...

13-11-25 Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic（创伤的） known species die-off in Earth's history. Some researchers have suggested that this extinction was tri...

13-11-21 Scientists discover three new gorgeous species of the wafer trapdoor genus Fufius -- F. minusculus, F. jalapensis, and F. candango. The discovery of the three new species, published in the open access journal ZooKeys, paves the road to understanding...

13-11-13 The oldest big cat fossils ever found - from a previously unknown species similar to a snow leopard - have been unearthed in the Himalayas. 喜马拉雅山地区一块最古老的猫科动物化石被发掘出土这是一种类似于雪豹的未知物种。 It is rare for such an ancient...

13-11-08 Discovering a new species is, among biologists, akin to（近似） hitting a grand slam, and University of South Carolina ichthyologist（鱼类学者） Joe Quattro led a team that recently cleared the bases. In the journal Zootaxa, they describe a rare sha...