Volcanic eruptions have been in the news quite a lot lately, what with Europe’s air traffic getting disrupted by the one in…

Bluefin tuna is an exceptionally valuable fish and its catch it tightly controlled. Unfortunately, this species sometimes ends up in the nets…

This week’s image is not from this world. It is from a virtual world. What you think you see in this picture…

Large sharks don’t have much to worry about as far as being a target for predators – they are top predators themselves…

Who is not familiar with the image of a dung beetle, rolling a piece of elephant feces bigger than itself, providing food…

About 3.6 million years ago, a couple of early hominins (group ancestral to humans) walked over some fresh volcanic ash and left…

Very, very long time ago, around 500 million years ago, in Cambrian, an unfortunate (for the animals involved, fortunate for science) event…

Did dinosaurs have feathers? More and more fossils are being uncovered suggesting that this is indeed the case. But some fossils are…

Raw data, statistical analysis, standard forms of graphing the result… sometimes observing these obscures what is really interesting about the information at…

Mimoperadectes houdei, a new species of peradectid marsupial formally described by the authors of the new PLoS ONE paper, Cranial Anatomy of…

As we approach PLoS ONE’s third birthday (or, rather, our third second birthday), this week’s featured image comes from a paper published…

A study by David Rand and Thomas Pfeiffer of Harvard University published in PLoS ONE yesterday reveals how scientific journals’ different publication…