Animal News

Scientific News about Animals – A service of Macroevolution.net

Animal News is our page reporting recent scientific findings about animals. This page sometime links to interesting articles on other sites. Follow @Macroevo Bug-sized flying robots Researchers at Harvard and Johns Hopkins are working to develop tiny robots that fly. Full article → Atrazine: An environmental blight A new study finds consistent patterns of reproductive dysfunction in amphibians, fish, reptiles and mammals exposed to the widely used herbicide atrazine. Full article → Kirtlands warbler: Assisted by NASA Satellite data shows Kirtland's warblers prefer forests after fire. Full article → Chimpanzees: Share and share alike? Savanna chimpanzee's behavior sheds light on that of early humans. Full article → Pregnant dolphins: It's a drag Pregnant women aren't the only ones with problems. Pregnant dolphins have their troubles, too. Full article → Humpback whales on rebound Scientists have increased their estimate of the number of humpback whales in the North Pacific Ocean. Full article → Carcharocles megalodon strikes again! Paleontologists have found the traces of an ancient shark attack, probably by the huge Carcharocles megalodon, preserved in a fossil whale bone. Full article → Share/print this page: New fossil mammal from Argentina Cronopio dentiacutus, a newly discovered late Cretaceous South American mammal, provides for the first time the whole cranial morphology of a dryolestoid. Full article → Biological tape uses insect tricks to stick German scientists have created a dry, biological tape that can be repeatedly peeled off without losing its adhesive properties. Full article → Tasmanian tiger: Weak jaw or weak study? A new study says the extinct Tasmanian tiger had a weak jaw, but this conflicts with historical reports by eyewitnesses that say this animal could easily kill dogs. Full article → California sea otters - Survey prevented Scientists were unable to complete this year's survey of the California sea otter due to heavy fog, poor visibility, and strong winds throughout the spring and summer. Full article → Oldest woolly rhino discovered in Tibet Scientists have discovered the complete skull and lower jaw of a previously unknown and long-extinct animal. They christened it the Tibetan woolly rhino. Full article → Hybrid butterfly Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly that evolved when two other types of swallowtails hybridized long ago. Full article → The ultimate camouflage Marine biologists are studying the skin of cephalopods to create the camouflage of the future. Full article → Sea Lampreys: A new repellent? A repellent for sea lampreys could be the key to better controlling one of the most destructive invasive organisms in the Great Lakes. Full article → Brainy lizards pass IQ test for birds Tropical lizards may be slow. But they aren't dumb. They can do problem-solving tasks just as well as birds and mammals, a new study shows. Full article → Animal News - © 2011, 2012 Macroevolution.net    Other news pages on Macroevolution.net: General biology — Recent general-interest biology news. Environmental news — Recent findings about the environment. Health current events — Medical news and current events. Biotechnology current events — Recent advances in biotechnology. Molecular biology news — Recent developments in molecular biology. Current earth science articles — News about the Earth. Astrobiology — Astronomy news with a bearing biology. Fossil news — News about recent fossil finds. Marine science current events — New findings in marine biology. Old, but well-liked — Popular stories now past their prime. Gray seal moms: Not all are equal Gray seal mothers have different personalities and some take better care of their pups than others. Full article → Glowing cats fight AIDS Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new immunization strategy to fight feline AIDS and illuminate ways to combat human HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Full article → Wasps in dinosaur eggs Well-preserved fossil insect cocoons have allowed researchers in Argentina to describe how wasps bred in rotting dinosaur eggs. Full article → Barred Sand Bass, Kelp Bass endangered Stocks of both these fish have collapsed due to a combination of overfishing of their breeding areas and changes in oceanographic conditions. Full article → Looking for a story that used to be on this page? Check here → Fish, seaweed, and coral A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology is using the Aquarius underwater laboratory off the coast of Florida to study how the diversity of seaweed-eating fish affects endangered coral reefs. Full article → The Golden Poison Frog — The most poisonous vertebrate known. Full article → The Red-eyed Tree Frog — Unlike many brightly colored Central and South American frogs, this one isn't poisonous. Full article → The Amazon River Dolphin — The largest river dolphin in the world. Full article → The Chinese Giant Salamander — Perhaps you never knew an amphibian could get this big. Full article → The Japanese Giant Salamander — Nearly as big as the biggest. Full article → Ambulocetus — The whale that wasn't. Full article → Bats — Where did they come from? Full article → Coral reefs — Huge, incredible structures built by tiny animals. Full article → Black Widows — They cause more fatalities than any other spider. Full article → Leapon: Lioness x leopard — Never step on a leopon! Full article → Titanoboa — The biggest snake that ever lived. Full article → What's a biologist? — Maybe not what you think… Full article → Where do cheetah's live? — Click here and find out: Full article → Ulisse Aldrovandi Read about an early naturalist famous for his huge collection of weird animals and plants. The man where myth met science. Full article → Animal News - © 2011, 2012 Macroevolution.net