ZOOLOGY
Zoology is the scientific study of animals — their biology, behaviour, evolution, and ecology. RathBiotaClan covers the latest zoology research and animal science discoveries, from remarkable animal adaptations and new species to wildlife biology and conservation science.
Human-generated electromagnetic noise has long lasting effects on light orientation in bats
A new study has found that soprano pipistrelle bats exposed to low-intensity broadband radiofrequency noise fly in random directions when...
Critically Endangered Blue Tarantula Surveyed in India’s Largest Tiger Reserve
A new conservation survey has begun for the Peacock Tarantula (Poecilotheria metallica) inside the Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve (NSTR). This...
Scientists spot signs of cannibal killer whales in Russian waters
A new study presents physical evidence that mammal-eating killer whales may be preying on fish-eating killer whales in the North...
Male Octopuses Sense Progesterone With Mating Arm, Study Finds
Male octopuses detect progesterone using their mating arm, revealing how a single organ combines chemical sensing and sperm transfer to...
Parasites in Fish Are Exploding – Scientists Say It’s a Good Sign
Deep in the oceans, something unexpected is happening with parasites. Tiny, thread-like worms that were once uncommon in many fish...
Scientists in India discover a rare crab that is half male, half female trait
In a new discovery that challenges our understanding of sexual development in invertebrates, researchers have documented the first confirmed case...
The Animal That Evolved Intelligence Twice Without Borrowing a Single Gene From Us
A throwaway remark about "alien" biology sparked a viral myth. The reality of octopus genetics is stranger and more illuminating...
Humpback whale sexual selection shifts as populations recover from whaling
Humpback whale sexual selection is undergoing a profound transformation as populations recover from decades of commercial whaling, according to a...
How Parasitic Wasps Use Hijacked Viruses to Sterilize Their Victims
Parasitic wasps are nature's body snatchers. They lay eggs inside living caterpillars, and their larvae slowly consume the host from...
Glyptodonts: Giant Armored Mammals of the Pleistocene
Few animals in the history of life have presented a more improbable silhouette than the glyptodont, a gigantic glyptodont armored...
POPULAR NEWS
Chewing gum releases thousands of microplastic particles directly into your mouth with every piece you chew
Microplastics are turning up in places researchers never expected: deep-sea sediments, Arctic ice, and human blood. Now, a UCLA pilot...
Yelling Isn’t Just Yelling: How a Hostile Home Rewires a Child’s Brain for Constant Alert
To a parent in the heat of the moment, a raised voice may feel like simple frustration. To a child...
72-Hour Fasting Can Reset Your Entire Immune System, USC Study Shows
A 72-hour fast can trigger a powerful immune system reset. Scientists call this stem cell regeneration. The process clears old...
New Studys Says Gen Z is the least sexually active young cohort in modern recorded history
A generation that grew up with dating apps in their pockets, pornography a tap away, and sex discussed more openly...
Is Gen Z the First Generation Less Intelligent Than Their Parents?
Gen Z intelligence decline is emerging as a serious concern among neuroscientists and education researchers. For over a century, each...
EDITOR CHOICE‘S
Choices for Gap Weights: Constant, Affine & Arbitrary Gap Weights in Sequence Alignment
In alignment problems, the use of gaps in the objective function helps in finding alignments that satisfy an expected shape,...
Gaps in Sequence Alignment and Their Role in cDNA Matching
In the study of string alignment and dynamic programming, the basic elements used to evaluate an alignment are matches, mismatches,...
Local Alignment: Finding Substrings of High Similarity | Notes
Sequence comparison is one of the fundamental problems in computational biology and string algorithms. While global alignment compares two strings...
Weighted Edit Distance Explained: Operation-Weight & Alphabet-Weight (Notes)
Edit distance measures how many insertions, deletions, and substitutions are required to transform one string into another. The basic edit...
