Giant DNA viruses that infect eukaryotic cells are thought to have played a role in the evolution of life, according to the ...

Jellyfish and sea anemones display human-like sleep, supporting theories about sleep’s role in preserving neurons, even ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Antarctic icefish are famous for living without red blood cells, but they are not alone. A species of needle-shaped, ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

Encouraged by these results, Dudin, Dey, Guichard, and Hamel launched a close collaboration. Three years later, their work has produced near-encyclopedic insight into hundreds of protist species and ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

According to new research recently published in the journal Nature Communications, the Greenland shark retained its visual ...