Climate change is often linked to widespread ecological loss, but its effects are not uniform across the animal kingdom. As ...

Horseshoe crabs have survived 300 million years with little change. Their blue blood protects humans from bacterial ...

Scientists have discovered a tropical “dynamite tree” that explosively launches seeds at 150 mph. The mechanism uses physics, ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

Nonhuman primates like bonobos and chimpanzees might engage in same-sex sexual activities to strengthen bonds, particularly ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Scientists are looking into the cells of creatures like whales and mole rats to see if they have lessons for humans.

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Dogs have adapted their behaviour in ways that get unintentionally rewarded by feeders but create hazards for others ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...