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A team of Canadian researchers have melded scientific method with traditional Inuit knowledge, to give us our first glance at what killer whales are dining on and how they’re doing it, in Canada’s North.

Researchers from Canada and the United Kingdom have described the most primative vertebrate – an eel-like creature from Yoho National Park.

An international team of researchers has sequenced the entire genome of the Tyrolean Iceman, uncovering a plethora of information about his ancestry, identity and his health – he’s even stepped into record books as the oldest documented case of lyme disease in humans.

Researchers have characterized the near complete fossils of two species of giant penguins.  The fossils are so complete, researchers were able to create a sketch of the bird that went extinct nearly 27 million years ago

Dung Beetles love poop – surprise, we know.  What isn’t known, is why they dance while they’re rolling their dinner home to safety – until now. A team of researchers from Sweden and South Africa have answered the question and Science-Fare.com’s Lee Flohr, spoke to Emily Baird, study co-author and …

New research has shown that Noisy Miners – a cooperative bird from eastern and south-eastern Australia – can tell the difference between the calls of other Noisy Miners, based on their voice characteristics alone.

Two new, circumbinary planets have been discovered by an international team of researchers.  It confirms and establishes a whole new class of planets that orbit two stars. The planets, Kepler-34b and Kepler-35b, are both low-density, gas-giants, about the same size as Saturn. They both lie on the fringe of the …

A team of researchers from the United States have coaxed single-celled, brewer’s yeast – Saccharomyces cerevisiae – into evolving as multicellular, snowflake-like, groups of yeast. They’re called snowflake yeast and have even evolved to use apoptosis – programmed, cell suicide – to create new, multicellular, life. “We see some cells …

The world’s smallest frog is now – according to The Guinness Book of World Records – the world’s smallest vertebrate. Officially?! “We have consulted with one of our experts and he has confirmed the frog to be the new smallest vertebrate,” a spokesperson for the book said, in a statement …

Two new species of miniature frogs have been discovered by researchers from the United States. They say one of them, Paedophryne amauensis, is the world’s smallest frog.