(Natural News) If you’re buying your honey from domestic apiaries and suppliers, there’s a high chance that you are contributing to the continued eradication of wild bumblebees, according to scientists. According to a group of scientists from the University of Vermont (UVM) and the University of Florida, a spillover of viruses from domesticated honey bees […]

(Natural News) While the northern pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) is well-known for consuming insects and other invertebrates as supplementary food, a recent study published in the journal Ecology points out that about one in five pitcher plants in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park has upgraded its menu to include juvenile salamanders. While Asiatic pitcher plants such as the Philippines’ Nepenthes […]

(Natural News) That beautiful glow you see on beaches at night may actually be the biological equivalent of warning sirens, according to a new study. In a study published in the journal Current Biology and supported by the Swedish Research Council, researchers found that for at least one dinoflagellate species (Lingulodinium polyedra), bioluminescence functions as […]

(Natural News) Turn down your lights at night, fellow humans ?– it might be doing more harm than good to Kermit and his fellow amphibians, a recent research from State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY Binghamton) suggests. In a study published in the journal Environmental Pollution, Jessica Hua, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at […]

(Natural News) Some crabs inhabit the shorelines, but not everyone notices them. You would have to look really closely to see the vague outline of these crustaceans in their habitat. Their ability to camouflage did not happen by chance. Scientists believe that their habitat influenced how these crabs evolved. Researchers from the University of Exeter‘s Penryn Campus […]

(Natural News) The deep-see dragonfish is truly a predator meant for the murky depths of the ocean. Aside from its dark skin that allows it to blend in with the ocean’s depths, it has another tool in its arsenal: invisible teeth. A team of oceanographers and materials scientists from the University of California and the INM-Leibniz Insititute for New Materials in […]

(Natural News) At the rate that plants are disappearing, experts warn that in the future, the idiom “God’s green earth” may end up becoming just a figure of speech and nothing more. According to a recent paper published in the journal Nature, Ecology and Evolution, 571 plant species are no longer found on Earth — more […]

(Natural News) It’s not every day you get to see a fish holding its breath, let alone for up to relatively long stretches of time. But this is exactly the sight that greeted researchers Nicholas Long and Stacy Farina while observing footage captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) remotely operated vehicles (ROV). According […]

(Natural News) To tourists and curious onlookers, the sparkling blue glow surrounding Taiwan’s Matsu Islands may look like a scene straight out of a Disney movie. Experts argue, however, that there’s a much darker side to this beautiful sight. “It’s toxic,” Chanmin Hu, an oceanographer at the University of South Florida, said in an interview […]

(Natural News) DNA evidence might finally prove whether or not the Loch Ness Monster, affectionately named Nessie, is real. An analysis of DNA samples left behind in Loch Ness may support some theories and disprove others regarding Nessie’s existence. Professor and biologist Neil Gemmell of the University of Otago in New Zealand led a team of his colleagues […]