Researchers have sequenced the genome of the Iberian mole and uncovered the basis of the masculinization of females. (Photo: David Carmona, University of...
Flagella, long fibers, bizarre appendages ... Researchers have gained useful insights into how cells can create so many different membrane structures.
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A young pond swallow is begging for food. (Image: SteveByland / iStock)
Dangerous adaptation to global warming: If insectivorous birds breed earlier, they risk...
To what extent can values be assigned to the services of nature? The environmental economist Bernd Hansjürgens from the Helmholtz Center for Environmental...
Examples of threatened carnivorous plants. (Image: Robinson / Krueger / Fleischmann)
A quarter of all carnivorous plant species are threatened with extinction worldwide, according...
Desert locust with an indicated polarization pattern of the sunlight. (Image: Keram Pfeiffer)
Desert locusts sometimes migrate several hundred kilometers. As researchers have...
Together with the common chimpanzee, the bonobos represent our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. The truffle-like mushroom can be seen in the...
Great Noctule (Image: Anton Vlaschenko)
Adaptation to climate change: Great noctule bat - one of the largest native bat species - shift their wintering areas...
Researchers have looked into birds' brains. (Photo: Tobias Machts / University of Tübingen)
On the trail of amazing bird intelligence: Two studies now shed...
One of the test rats, the colored marking facilitates their tracking in the labryinth. (Photo: Péter Palatitz / Máté Nagy)
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The Australian fairy circles as seen from the helicopter. (Image: Stephan Getzin)
Mysterious rings: In Australia's arid landscape, grasses grow naturally in...
The loss of the mother can also have far-reaching consequences for the life of the orphaned chimpanzee. (Image: Liran Samuni, Taï Chimpanzee Project)
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