Explore 25 mammals that are shockingly ugly but incredibly fascinating. From naked mole-rats to aye-ayes, discover nature's ...

Born already running on empty When the atlas moth breaks out of its cocoon, it has already eaten its last meal, and that meal ...

At Kalambo Falls in Zambia, archaeologists have excavated two interlocking logs deliberately shaped with tools by early ...

Extant and ancient cephalopods—including octopuses, squids, extinct ammonites, cuttlefish and nautiluses—have all had to solve the problem of buoyancy, whether they have hard external shells or not.

What happens after death? An international study led by the University of Granada (UGR), involving Ana Mateos and Jesús Rodríguez, researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la ...

Researchers have long suspected that the first of these slithering creatures lived in water, on land or underground. New ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

Research by Rutgers evolutionary biologist Debashish Bhattacharya and his collaborators show that the organisms, known as ...

In 1996, cryobiologist Gregory Fahy walked into his physician’s office and talked his way into a month’s supply of growth hormone. His hope, bolstered by a single study in rats 1, was that the ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest ...