Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

An Instagram post about the last two northern white rhinos references a scenario conservationists have warned us about for ...

The twins were born to a 22-year-old female named Mafuko, who lost her own mother to armed individuals. The extremely ...

Quick Take Even without official status, the Honu remains Hawaii’s nerve-center symbol of conservation, culture, and long ...

These insects are the absolute champions of fast time perception, processing changes 300 times per second compared to humans ...

For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death ...

MIFFLINBURG — Thirty-nine animals were rescued by the Pennsylvania SPCA from a breeder in Mifflinburg over concerns for their well-being, according to a media release. The Pennsylvania SPCA’s Animal ...

The genetic link between squids and octopuses may just be found in the vampire squid genome. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

How do animals decide when to fight and when to walk, fly, slither, or swim away? Most research on animal conflict has focused on the short-term costs of single interactions, but a pair of behavioral ...

In Telford's Exotic Zoo, life found a way. A casque-headed iguana has given birth to eight babies at the Shropshire wildlife park – without any contact with a male, via a phenomenon called ...

The Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project aims to sequence the genomes of all animals, fungi and plants found in Great Britain and Ireland—some 35,000 in total. That is a colossal undertaking whose first ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The UN on July 1 released proposals to share the use of “digital sequence information on genetic resources (DSI)” — the DNA sequences of plants, animals and microbes — to support ...