Animals

Ecosystems

Patrolling bats protect corn fields from pests

Bats play a key role in protecting corn from pests and fungus.

Animals

Shipwreck provides window into Tudor-era cod fishing

In the 1500s, England was feeding its navy with fish caught far from home, a new study finds.

Animals

Loss of vision meant energy savings for cavefish

Novel measurement feeds idea that tight energy budgets favored vision loss in cavefish.

Animals

How a seahorse dad is like a pregnant woman

Live birth has evolved at least 150 times in vertebrates, including in seahorses and humans. And there are some surprising similarities between the species.

Animals

Invading Argentine ants carry virus that attacks bees

The first survey of viruses in the globally invasive Argentine ant brings both potentially bad and good news.

Animals

Invading Argentine ant hordes carry a virus that attacks bees

Invasive Argentine ants may be reservoirs for a virus menacing honeybees — and for previously unknown virus.

Animals

Apes do the darndest things

Several chimp behaviors have researchers wondering if apes are a good model for early hominid life.

Animals

When octopuses dance beak to beak

The larger Pacific striped octopus does sex, motherhood and shrimp pranks like nobody else.

Anthropology

Minutes after encountering danger, lemurs yawn

Madagascar primates yawn within minutes of encountering threats.

Paleontology

Earliest sea scorpion discovered in Iowa

Earliest sea scorpion discovered in impact crater in Iowa.

Animals

A monkey uses a stick to pick its teeth and nose

A wild bearded capuchin monkey in Brazil was caught using tools to pick its nose and teeth.

Animals

Rabbits leave a mark on soil long after they are gone

Twenty years after rabbits were removed from a sub-Antarctic island, soil fungus has yet to return to normal, a study finds.