Though I don't blog about the topic with the breadth and depth of individuals such as Brian Switek or Darren Naish I do take some interest in natural history. This is the domain which was my original ...

A new study adds support to two earlier reports that songbirds and parrots are each other's closest relatives (Psittacopasserae), indicating that vocal learning abilities appeared in this group of ...

The biosynthesis of female moth sex pheromone blends is controlled by a number of different enzymes, many of which are encoded by members of multigene families. One such multigene family, the acyl-CoA ...