Life & Non-humans Archives - Page 3 of 1096

What makes mice fat, but not rats? Suppressing neuromedin U, study finds

Okayama University

Pearls within a pearl oyster shell. Pearl oysters are important products in Japan, as they produce beautiful pearls that are sought after for necklaces, earrings, and rings.

Molecular fingerprint behind beautiful pearls revealed

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)

Four squid embryos in their egg sac. These are the squid species Doryteuthis pealeii.

How squid and octopus get their big brains

Harvard University

Stem cells used to generate mini brains of the last male Sumatran rhino

Cell Press

Ticked off: New device may offer a better way to prevent tick bites

University of Massachusetts

World-first technology to suppress invasive mice

University of Adelaide

Shown are photographs of A. argo and its paper-thin eggcase; a map of the location off Oki Island, Japan, where the sequenced specimen was caught; the nearly intact Hox gene cluster, which was previously thought to be fragmented in all octopuses; and a depiction of the A. argo LamininG3 protein, which is homologous to a protein in the nautilus shell but does not appear to be present in the eggcase of A. argo.

Inside the genome of the world’s weirdest octopus

SMBE Journals

Piggy in the middle: Pig aggression reduced when a bystander pig steps in

University of Torino (Turin, Italy)

Platypus populations vulnerable to threats from dams

University of New South Wales

A zebrafish showing, from lea to right, the eye, the pseudobranch, and the gills

Why fish look down when they swim

Northwestern University

$An illustration of microplankton in a solution. The round rings under the microplankton are the holograms formed when light is refracted by the microplankton.$

Holographic microscopy provides insights into the life of microplankton

University of Groningen

Theodore Roosevelt stands above a black rhino he has just killed (1911).

Rhino horns have shrunk over past century, likely due to hunting

University of Cambridge