Here’s what you need to know about the Varroa mite
Bee populations worldwide have been collapsing under attack from parasitic Varroa mites.
Now, these mites have reached Australia.
Professor Sasha Mikheyev from The Australian National University...
Great white sharks may have contributed to megalodon extinction
Using zinc isotopes, researchers investigated the diet of the megalodon, the largest shark to have ever lived
Megatooth sharks like Otodus megalodon, more commonly known...
Human middle ear evolved from fish gills, shows fossil study
The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that...
Scientists discover Europe’s largest land predator on the Isle of Wight
Paleontologists have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest-ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that measured over 10m long and lived around 125 million...
Salt may be the key to life on Earth and beyond
The composition of the atmosphere, especially the abundance of greenhouse gases, influences Earth’s climate.
Researchers at Purdue University, led by Stephanie Olson, assistant professor of...
Most of our evolutionary trees could be wrong, shows study
New study led by scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath suggests that determining evolutionary trees of organisms by...
Shark antibodies may hold the key to stopping COVID-19
Fossil evidence suggests that sharks first existed 420 million years ago, predating humanity, Mount Everest, and even trees.
Over the course of time, sharks and...
How to make colors out of gold and DNA
Folk belief says there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but new technology is turning that idea on its head...
Scientists find new way to check dinosaurs’ temperature
A Yale-led research team has turned up the heat on dinosaur metabolism — establishing that the earliest dinosaurs and pterosaurs had exceptionally high metabolic...
Wild animals are evolving much faster than previously thought
The raw material for evolution is much more abundant in wild animals than we previously believed, according to new research from The Australian National...