Scientists discover webbed feet in land animals, challenging common assumptions. This trait, initially for swimming, also ...

Recent research from the UK Biobank shows that menopause is linked to adverse mental health outcomes and lower brain volume.

In the mesmerizing world of Hollywood, the use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) has revolutionized the way filmmakers bring stories to life, especially when it comes to incorporating animals into ...

Bioluminescence is one of nature’s most enchanting displays, where living organisms produce and emit light. This glow-in-the-dark phenomenon is not just confined to fireflies; it spans across a wide ...

An ancient life form that lived around 420 million years ago fundamentally challenges everything we think we know about evolution and the classification of species. The organism known as Prototaxites, ...

The duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) stands as perhaps evolution’s most famous mashup. When European naturalists first encountered specimens in the late 18th century, many dismissed ...

This animal's armor has upended a key law of evolution For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – were an ancient ...

The study outlines a new scenario for understanding how genome regulation and chromatin organization influence the evolution of animal body plans. The conservation of genome regulatory elements over ...

Scientists are working to understand how every cell in the starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) works. So far, they have built an atlas that tracks DNA control mechanisms in 60,000 starlet sea ...

When I got my first look at Boulenger’s backpack frog, I thought the poor thing was suffering from the world’s most unpleasant skin disease. The frog in this video appears to be wearing a cluster of ...

The Cambrian radiation (~539 Ma) generated most animal body plans in ~20 million years. This rapid diversification raises the central question of how genomic innovation for architectural change—rather ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...