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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 ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

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

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

A new study published in the prestigious journal Nature in collaboration with a researcher from the University of Bucharest ...