A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and pollinators become uncoordinated (even for a brief time) that can change who reproduces best and alter plant diversity. The paper offers new insights into how evolution works in real time.

A robot crab has helped scientists understand how male fiddler crabs compete over females.

Biologists at the University of Cincinnati discovered that some cockroaches, like people, need more sleep when they’re pregnant. And baby cockroaches need the mom to sleep longer for proper development.

White sharks exhibit stark differences between the DNA in their nuclei and the DNA in their mitochondria, and the longstanding theory that explains why has just been invalidated. 

Young chimpanzees learn their communication style from their mother and maternal relatives, but show little similarity to the communication behavior of their father and paternal relatives, according to a study publishing August 5^th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Joseph Mine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues.