Biology News Stories

Electric eels curl up to double the damage dealt by their electric organs and immobilise their prospective prey.

The poo of large animals that are now extinct was key to the Earth's nutrient cycle.

Your birth order will not necessarily determine your personality in later life.

Life may have got going on Earth 300 million years earlier than first proposed, according to a study of ancient rock...

Young babies use their tongues to help them to hear and make sense of spoken sounds. Might a dummy make a difference to...

植物encourag花边与咖啡因的花蜜e bees to keep returning and pollinate them in the process.

Using light, researchers were able to control the heartbeat of a fruit fly, which could help to research and prevent...

Going for a long run gave mice the same high as if they were smoking cannabis.

The colours of extinct animals have been revealed for the first time as ancient pigments are unlocked from fossils...

A man paralysed has been able to walk again thanks to a new brain-muscle interface device developed by scientists in...

Some bats use a special conveyor belt-like tongue to extract nactar from flowers

Sitting has been deemed the new smoking, but is fidgeting now the new standing?

Does being a good parent shorten your lifespan? The answer is yes, at least if you’re a burying beetle with a lazy...

A technique to selectively deactivate pain pathways from specific parts of the body has been developed by scientists in...

Endangered Asian elephants age faster and have fewer offspring if their mothers are stressed when they are born.

Zebra finches who mate for 'love' are better parents than those who don't...

A study into Mexican fish has found that those evolved to living in caves save energy by not having eyes.

To help understand what goes on in the mind of man's best friend, five hundred dogs have been recruited as the...

Antibacterial vegetables capable of blitzing dangerous E. coli infections have been bred by scientists in Germany.

A cave crammed with fossil remains of a previously undiscovered human ancestor suggests that these primitive people...

A blood test can be used to detect a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer's...

A 460 million year old fossil of the oldest and largest species of marine scorpion has been discovered, measuring...

Depth of fishing is key to sustainability, not the size of catch says new research...

Drones bad for black bears...