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One Law to Rule Them All: Sizes Within a Species Appear to Follow a Universal Distribution
March 4, 2013 Biologists have discovered what might be a universal property of size distributions in living systems. If valid throughout the animal kingdom, it could have profound implications on how we understand ... > full story -
Don't Be Fooled: Flowers Mislead Traditional Taxonomy
March 4, 2013 For hundreds of years, plant taxonomists have worked to understand how species are related. Until relatively recently, their only reliable source of information about these relationships was the ... > full story -
Problems With Identifying Meat? The Answer Is to Check the Barcode
February 28, 2013 Want to know what you are eating? DNA barcodes can be used to identify even very closely related species, finds a new article. Results from the study show that the labelling of game meat in South ... > full story -
New Marine Species Discovered in Pacific Ocean
February 28, 2013 An international expedition in Papua New Guinea has found a new species of sea slugs, feather stars and amphipods, a shrimp-like ... > full story -
Reducing Numbers of One Carnivore Species Indirectly Leads to Extinction of Others
February 28, 2013 Previous studies have shown that carnivores can have indirect positive effects on each other, which means that when one species is lost, others could soon follow. Biologists have now found that ... > full story -
Giant Cockroach Genus Pseudophoraspis Expands to the North With 3 New Species
February 28, 2013 Three new species of the giant cockroach genus Pseudophoraspis have been discovered in the Hainan, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces of China. The three newly described cockroaches, together with another ... > full story -
More New Species in Geologically Dynamic Region
February 28, 2013 Mountain formation stimulates increased biodiversity, researchers have discovered. It is often thought that a long-term stable environment lead to species richness and, therefore, greater ... > full story -
Scent of a Coral: Symbiosis Between Two New Barnacle Species and a Gorgonian Host
February 27, 2013 Two new species of sessile barnacles were discovered in the waters of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea. The newly described animals seem to demonstrate astonishing ... > full story -
Two New Species of Mushroom Found in the Iberian Peninsula, Spain
February 26, 2013 Biologists have documented two new species of Hydnum, commonly known as ox tongue mushrooms, as part of a new study. The two mushroom species belong to the Hydnum genus, a type of fungus commonly ... > full story -
Four New Species of Water-Gliding Rove Beetles Discovered in Ningxia, China
February 25, 2013 Four new species of Steninae were discovered during an expedition in the Liupan Shan Natural Reserve, Ningxia, China. The scientists described a total of 17 species of these intriguing beetles that ... > full story
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