Life

Life

Dolphin may sense the body electric

Organs on the species' snout help it detect faint fields, like those generated by prey.

Life

Life

Food-storing tayras, stay-at-home finch dads and ant sex scandals in this week's news.

Life

Genes & Cells

Genes for butterfly wings and maintaining maleness, plus turtles meet their lizard relatives and more in this week’s news.

Life

A tryst, then the power to resist

House mice in Europe got some of their tolerance for rodenticides from hybridizing with a completely different species

Life

The lion eats tonight …

Attacks on humans peak after a full moon, when feline bellies tend to rumble.

Life

Shuffling the genetic deck

Scientists map places where chromosomes mix and match genes.

Life

Life

Slacker fish, carnivorous pitfalls, a dinosaur gap and more in this week’s news.

Life

Genes & Cells

Human livers implanted in mice, plus new eye of newt, the potato genome and more in this week’s news.

Microbes

Whether for brains or bacteria, intelligence is all about food

Animals

Baboon bosses get stressed for success

In the wild, the most powerful males reign tensely.

Life

Oil spill didn’t hurt seagrass-dwelling juvenile fish

Long-term effects of early exposure to hydrocarbons remains unknown.

Life

Learnin’ lizards

Underrated reptiles figure out what to do when the old rules change.