Menopause, when a woman’s period ceases, is a stark example of the consequences of ovarian aging. It occurs when the ovaries ...

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

Mudskippers break the rules of fish biology by breathing through their skin, walking on their fins and thriving on land where ...

As individuals, driver ants are small and relatively insignificant creatures. But as a colony, they transform into a huge and ...

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, giving them access to an entirely new ecological space.

A devastating ice age wiped out most marine life, yet new research reveals how this ancient disaster unexpectedly paved the ...

Three new species discovered on Dauan Island: two frogs and a unique gecko survive in rocky shelters in the Torres Strait.

Close up image of a greenland shark taken at the floe edge of the Admiralty Inlet, Nunavut. Credits: Hemming1952. “You see it ...

M.S. in Biodiversity Data Analytics Program Director Viorel Popescu examines why biodiversity commitments are running into a ...

A review back in 2021 documented cases of spiders preying on snakes, turning up 319 reports from every continent except ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Read how ancient Greenland sharks' bodies preserve their eyesight for hundreds of years and what this means for older humans.