A shrimp scrap drifted down the face of a mirror, and a small reef fish tracked it like it was watching a slow-motion experiment. The fish, a blue-streak cleaner wrasse, had carried the shrimp upward, ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers, along with Indigenous Awajún community members have described 27 new-to-science species including a squirrel representing an entirely ...

Risks to migrating mammals, birds and fishes are rising, a landmark report has warned. The first State of the World's Migratory Species report found that countries aren't doing enough to save ...

New research reveals that pregnancy-related brain impairment is present in live-bearing fish, but instead of affecting learning and memory as expected from similar research on mammals, it appears to ...

What did one California singing fish say to the other? We’re not entirely sure either, but if anyone might be able to translate, it would be the researchers at Cornell University. In a new study of ...

This collection consists of files of Directors Stanley Paul Young, 1958-1959, and Richard Hyde Manville, 1960-1970, primarily concerning the Alaska sea-otter investigations of Karl Walton Kenyon. The ...

The archer fish, a skilled marksmen that shoots insects down from trees by spiting streams of water, spots prey that aren't in line with what's behind them, an ability once thought to be found only in ...

Lizards, birds and fish often sport vivid colors, from neon pink to deep violet, but most mammals are fairly drab. So why don't mammals match the vibrant hues of other animals? A number of factors ...

Antibodies—proteins that are produced by our immune system to protect us—are crucial for recognizing and getting rid of unwanted substances, or antigens, in our body. Although their role is universal, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleaner wrasse quickly scraped off a mirror-only mark, then used shrimp scraps to probe mirror space, researchers report. (CREDIT: ...