Bees May Speak a Lingua Franca When It Comes to Food. An experiment done by researchers at Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences in London suggests that bumblebees can learn to find food from interpreting ...

Salt Water Fish Have Fresh Water Roots. A study by scientists at the State University of New York at Stony Brook suggests a somewhat surprising origin for most of today’s ocean fish. While studying ray-finned fish, ...

Mammals No Strangers to Chemical Warfare. Toxins as a defense strategy are well documented in the reptile and insect worlds. However, this New York Times article discusses the many instances where mammals have evolved ...

Sightless Cave Fish Demonstrate Evolutionary Advantage. In the rivers and caves of Sierra de El Abra, Mexico, cave fish that never see the light of day have evolved without eyes or pigmentation. These fish are believed ...

First Evidence That Increased Carbon Dioxide in Oceans Harms Fish. The Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies has announced that it conducted research on the increased levels ...

Serendipitous Twist May Provide Solution for Colony Collapse Disorder. An “absent minded professor” from San Francisco State University may have stumbled upon the cause of the calamitous colony collapse disorder ...

Animal Extinctions – 2011 — A year to forget? The earth has experienced several major extinction events. However, those extinctions, caused by natural events, seemed to have occurred over extremely long time ...

This week's dirt: Walking Fish Left Fossil ‘Finprints’, Tiny Spiders With Giant Brains, Why We Still Have Body Hair, Insects Point the Way to Plastics of the Future, Buttercups Play With Light to Attract Bees, ‘Photoshopping’ ...