Nematodes have oily surfaces that impact survival and interactions, offering insights into evolution and parasite control. A ...

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An entirely new plant species, known as a "wooly devil," has been discovered in Big Bend National Park in Texas. This is the first new plant genus and species to have been discovered in a U.S.

Jonathan Armbruster, professor and curator of fishes in Auburn University's College of Sciences and Mathematics (COSAM), has ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our ...

Seen up close, each polyp has a tube-like body and an opening ringed with dozens of “transparent” tentacles. These “sand-encrusted” polyps form “small groups embedded and assembled in a common tissue” ...

The blowfly larvae bodies have evolved to closely resemble those of the termites, the researchers report February 10 in Current Biology. Inside the nest, termites recognize each other through touch, ...

This study presents an important discovery regarding the diversity and evolution of gall-forming microbial effectors. Supported by convincing computational structural predictions and analyses, the ...

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

The clownfish-anemone living arrangement is one of the most widely recognized examples of symbiosis. Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how anemonefish can live safely among sea ...

According to the team, the relationship between the blow fly larvae and termites appears to be some form of social parasitism ...

The map contains the most complete classification of essential genes in any Plasmodium species and can be used to identify ...