Dog owners might struggle to recognize subtle signs of pain in their pets, with barely half of owners identifying symptoms such as nighttime restlessness and clinginess as likely indicating pain, in survey study

Snow leopards, leopards and wolves in the Himalayas coexist in the same space by choosing different prey, per new study examining the lives of these apex predators

A research team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences evaluated the evolution of body size, skull shape, and respiratory traits using a novel dataset of 344 fossil species. The study focused on early-diverging land vertebrates from the Middle Devonian to the Early Permian.

As biologists know, nature can take its sweet time explaining itself. Andrew Gillis, associate scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), has been investigating how the paired fins of fishes evolved for nearly 20 years - ever since he was a PhD student with Neil Shubin at the University of Chicago. A new study from Gillis and the MBL-UChicago Graduate Research Fellowship Program doesn’t quite put the matter to rest – but it gives important insight to a broader question in evolutionary biology.

With the arrival of spring a few weeks ago, new buds and colours on the trees started to appear.

Along with that new growth, a UBC Okanagan researcher has determined that some trees in spring also provide simple, visual clues—raised or lowered branches—to indicate that they are rehydrating or water-stressed.

The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) has published a report in the journal BioScience highlighting the winners of its 2025 Faces of Biology Photo Contest. The contest was cosponsored by AIBS and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB).

The study, published in Fish and Fisheries, analyzed global aquaculture production from 1950 to 2023 and found that, since the 1980s, the industry has shifted toward a smaller number of intensively farmed species—particularly finfish—that tend to have lower overall sustainability potential.

Computational biologists developed a simple way to test a language model’s understanding of proteins. The method holds potential to improve a range of language models in science.