Animals

  1. Plants

    Animals’ jaundice pigment found in plants

    Bilirubin, a compound well known in animals, gives seed fuzz its intense orange.

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  2. Genetics

    Dog gene heeds call of the wild

    Domesticated dogs passed a gene for dark fur color to their wild cousins.

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  3. Life

    A Most Private Evolution

    The most dramatic examples of the power of evolutionary theory may come from the strange and ugly stuff — biology too dumb to have been designed.

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  4. Life

    Darwin’s Evolution

    Darwin's life and his contribution to science.

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  5. Life

    Capuchin monkeys choose the right tool for the nut

    New field experiments indicate that wild capuchin monkeys choose the most effective stones for cracking nuts, suggesting deep evolutionary roots for the use of stone tools.

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  6. Animals

    Hanging with Bats: Ecobats, Vampires, and Movie Stars by Karen Taschek

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  7. Animals

    Dolphins wield tools of the sea

    A long-term study of dolphins living off Australia’s coast finds that a small number of them, mostly females, frequently use sea sponges to forage for fish on the ocean floor.

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  8. Animals

    Dogs will go on strike over unfair treats

    Equal sausage demanded for equal paw shakes.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Honeybee CSI: Why dead bodies can’t be found

    Virus could explain one symptom of colony collapse.

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  10. Animals

    Lizard push-ups grab attention

    Nearby lizards more likely to get the message if its preceded by push-ups

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  11. Life

    Mammoth genome approaching completion

    Genetic material extracted from the hair of woolly mammoths has revealed new information about the extinct creatures, including how closely related they are to modern elephants.

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  12. Animals

    Forensics’ next tool: Hair-collecting caterpillars

    First human DNA extraction from hair bits in moth larval case.

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