biology

Emperor publishes entry in encyclopedia on fish...
Emperor Akihito makes a toast during an event in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on April 22 to celebrate the publication of "Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species, Third Edition," an illustrated book on ichthyological taxonomy. (Pool)
April 23, 2013
Emperor Akihito and co-authors of an encyclopedic work on fish species in Japan celebrated publication of the latest illustrated set of volumes at an event held in Tokyo's...
Scientists film penguins catching prey at lightning ...
An Adelie penguin is equipped with a motion sensor on the head and a video camera on the back. (Provided by the National Institute of Polar Research and Yuuki Watanabe)
January 22, 2013
Japanese scientists have filmed Adelie penguins in Antarctica snatching up prey at rates of up to two fish per second, far faster than what their behavior on land would suggest.
New frog species found on Sado Island
A newly recognized species of frog named “sadogaeru” (Provided by Ikuo Miura)
December 26, 2012
A frog discovered 15 years ago on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture is a new species, researchers say.
Botanists crossbreed orchid that photosynthesizes...
A hybrid of photosynthesizing and nonphotosynthesizing orchid species at the National Museum of Nature and Science's Tsukuba Botanical Garden in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Oct. 26 (Tomoyuki Yamamoto)
November 07, 2012
TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--In a world first, Japanese botanists have created blooming hybrid orchids after crossbreeding a species that photosynthesizes with another that...
Scientists: baldness treatment may lie in stressed...
The Asahi Shimbun
July 14, 2012
A study shedding light onto the way hair follicles affect immune cells in the skin could help lead to treatments for baldness and dermatitis.
Study: Amazon, Nile species developed electric...
Electric fish species in Africa, left, and those in South America, right, emit different electric signals but look similar. (Provided by Masaki Miya)
July 04, 2012
Fish species that evolved on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean developed the ability to generate electricity in a similar way and around the same time, according to an...
Scientists bring to life Jurassic bush-cricket's...
A reconstituted image of Archaboilus musicus, a Jurassic bush-cricket whose songs were reconstructed scientifically (Image provided by Fernando Montealegre-Zapata)
February 23, 2012
In the next best thing to "Jurassic Park," a team of researchers from China, Britain and the United States have recreated the song of an ancient bush-cricket that prospered...
Flowers woken from 30,000 years of slumber in...
These pink flowers were grown from plant tissue excavated from Siberian permafrost. (Provided by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
February 23, 2012
When these pink flowers last bloomed during the Ice Age, they might have been eaten by wooly mammoths in the frozen tundra or picked by the last of the Neanderthals. Instead, a ...
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