Quick Take Maintaining perfect vision for 400 years is a biological achievement for the Greenland shark. Operating at 9,500 ...

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among ...

A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

Ever since, skin bones have remained a recurring motif in evolution. Yet we still know surprisingly little about them. Why do ...

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

According to a new study published in the Journal of Mammalogy, the number of living mammal species has increased by 25% ...

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 ...

The king cobra is the longest venomous snake alive today, but it is not the largest venomous snake to have ever existed.

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

Bonds between same-sex individuals help apes and monkeys to manage conflict and strengthen alliances, especially in dry ...

A new study by researchers at Imperial College London and published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution could help shed ...