The world’s first lab-based tick feeding system for bush ticks, developed by researchers at the University of Melbourne, has transformed the study of ticks and how they transmit disease. The novel, ...

My new fish started showing worrying symptoms, and it turns out they’re infected with a protozoan parasite. In this video, I break down the signs I noticed early, what caused the outbreak, and the ...

A new international study warns that reproductive health in space is no longer a theoretical concern and that questions about fertility and pregnancy should be pressing concerns. As commercial ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: Chondrichthyan fishes—a group that includes rays, skates, chimaeras, and sharks—are thought to have energy intensive reproduction cycles due in no ...

The aim of this project is to create an environment where protozoa-like entities evolve their behaviours and morphologies in order to survive and reproduce. The simulation takes place in a 2D ...

For centuries, eels have kept one of nature’s most stubborn secrets. Scientists have chased answers through ancient folklore, dead ends in early experiments, and decades of missing evidence. Even with ...

Dr. Paul B. Weisz, a 28-year-old refuges from Austria now serving as assistant professor of biology at Brown University, Providence, R.I., has discovered what may roughly he termed a third ...

In Telford's Exotic Zoo, life found a way. A casque-headed iguana has given birth to eight babies at the Shropshire wildlife park – without any contact with a male, via a phenomenon called ...

It is estimated that 1.5 to 2 million people in the world keep aquariums, the majority with ornamental species, mainly fish. This have negative environmental consequences because only 1% of marine ...