Life Sciences and Biomedicine Archives

Eocene Fossils: The Mines of Messel

The Messel Pit Fossil Site near Darmstadt, Germany, was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995. Where is Messel and what was found?

Health Zoology

By Emily Rhode @riseandsci What if instead of just hanging out on lunch dates or at happy hour, people sat…

Zoology

Good news from the jungles of Sumatra: extensive survey shows that more than twice as many orangutans live in Sumatra…

By Kate Stone It is generally understood that breathing polluted air can damage our lungs. However, a new study recently…

Biology Zoology

By Emily Willoughby @eawilloughby It is probably not a coincidence that the verbs ape and parrot have such a similar…

This is the latest addition to wildlife photographer Max Goldberg’s collection of photo essays based on his recent National Geographic…

By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Fecal Fungi May Lead to Cheaper Biofuel Manure may be a good fertilizer, but there’s more…

By Neha Jain @lifesciexplore Harmful algal blooms produce toxins that can be deadly to marine mammals. In the US, such…

Can you imagine living on nothing but coffee? Some of us would probably like to at times, if not for the taste then for the caffeine buzz.

Paleontology

Deinonychus antirrhopus was discovered by paleontologist J. H. Ostrom in the Cloverly Formation in Montana in 1969.