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Ask a random person to picture a bee, and they’ll likely conjure up the familiar black-and-yellow striped creature buzzing from flower to flower collecting pollen to bring back to the hive. But a more unusual group of bees can be found “slicing chunks of meat from carcasses in tropical rainforests,” according to the authors of a new paper published in the journal mBio. As a result, these bees have gut microbiomes that are markedly different from their fellow buzzers, with populations more common to carrion-loving hyenas and vultures. So they are commonly known as “vulture bees” (or “carrion bees”).

Quolls are known to scavenge. But I wanted to know more about their scavenging of human corpses. I hoped this would yield further insights into the animal’s diet and feeding behaviour

How penis bones help primates win the mating game

The Lost World of Socotra: The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth

The idea of a parasite—an organism that needs a host organism—has always captured our attention and has been the theme of countless movies, from the sci-fi horror film Alien to the Oscar-winning movie Parasite. But a group of scientists say that parasites undeservedly get a bad reputation, and that some of them should even be conserved. They published their 12-point parasite conservation plan in the journal Biological Conservation.

Tyrannosaurus rex may have been three species, scientists say

Biggest bacterium ever discovered amazes scientists with its complexity

Death is one of those undiscovered boundaries in today’s well researched world. British biologists went after it….Death is pale blue.

From a blind salamander to a tap-dancing spider, scientists have revealed a new list of the ’25 most wanted lost species’ around the world.

Drawn up by Austin, Texas-based organisation Re:wild, the list sheds light on global species that are evading detection – and could possibly be extinct.

A new study looked at a well-preserved fossil of an Ichthyornis that lived about 70 million years ago. The scientists compared the brain of the ancient bird to that of modern birds. Modern birds’ brains are structurally different, which might have allowed them to survive the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs