Animals

Animals

Fossilized seashells’ true colors revealed

To the naked eye, fossilized seashells lack the colorful patterns of their living counterparts. But ultraviolet light can reveal some of their unique hues.

Animals

Heat makes scuttling tarantulas less coordinated

On hot days, tarantula run faster, but their may be harder to bend and flex at high speeds, researchers find.

Animals

How human activities may be creating coywolves

Endangered red wolves will mate with coyotes when their partners are killed, which often happens because of human activities, a new study finds.

Animals

Songbird crosses the Atlantic in a nonstop flight

Using light-sensing geolocators, researchers confirm an iconic songbird’s impressive transoceanic migration.

Animals

Panda stalking reveals panda hangouts

Scientists used GPS trackers to learn about the giant panda lifestyle.

Life

Bright bird plumage resulted from natural, sexual selection

Darwin hypothesized that bird color differences resulted from sexual selection. Wallace disagreed. A study shows that both were right after all.

Animals

For bats, simple traffic patterns limit collisions

Humans aren’t the only ones who follow traffic rules. Bats do it too, researchers report.

Life

No-fishing scheme in Great Barrier Reef succeeds with valuable fishes

Coral trout are thriving in marine protected areas in the Great Barrier Reef, but the no-take zones are having a smaller effect on other reef residents, a new 10-year report card shows.

Animals

‘If you build it they will come’ fails for turtle crossings

Turtles and snakes barely used an ecopassage built to make their movements safer. Scientists blame poor fencing that failed to keep them off the roadway.

Environment

Manganese turns honeybees into bumbling foragers

Ingesting low doses of the heavy metal manganese disrupts honeybee foraging, a new experiment suggests.

Animals

Neandertal of ant farmers grows modern food

The most old-fashioned fungus-growing ant yet discovered grows a startlingly new-fangled crop.

Paleontology

Fossil of monstrous fish-eating amphibian unearthed

A new Triassic species of giant amphibian lived like a crocodile instead of like its cute little salamander and frog relatives of today.