"These molecules act as a general danger signal recognized not only by conspecifics but also by bacteria of different species," says Drescher "Peptidoglycans are released when bacteria are killed ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new species of the deadly funnel-web spider that is bigger and more venomous than its relatives, nicknaming it "Big Boy." In research released Monday ...

The addition of CS had no significant effect on the species and abundance of microorganisms in the rumen. The NMDS analysis based on the Bray-Curtis distance matrix (Figure 4B) showed that the CON ...

Specimens have large eyes and claws, as well as smooth bodies. The species comes in two color forms: Blue form crayfish are a dark hue with orange joints and tails, while purple form crayfish are ...

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists. Nicknamed 'big boy', it can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches) compared with 5cm ...

SYDNEY, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo say they've made a breakthrough in introducing a new trait into bacteria found in ... at microplastics found in sea species at the Hellenic Centre for ...

Freshwater ecosystems, though they occupy less than 1% of Earth’s surface, are incredibly rich in biodiversity. They provide habitats for more than 10% of all known species, making them critical to ...

A study by scientists at the U.K.'s University of Cambridge recently found that 135 species of gut bacteria were linked to the absence of Enterobacteriaceae, a group of bacteria that can cause ...

So he located all the relevant papers on a bacterial species that his laboratory studies — an organism that causes tooth decay called Streptococcus sobrinus — but discovered that he’d ...