Uintatheres first appeared around 58 million years ago, less than 10 million years after the asteroid impact that wiped out ...

A crab scurrying sideways across the beach looks almost comically awkward, yet this strange gait conceals a surprisingly ...

In the early 1980s, scientists observed an anomaly. Embedded within cell membranes, they identified ion channels with ...

Near-complete genomes from eight Myotis bat species suggest that viral defense, DNA-damage responses, cancer-related pathways and extreme longevity have evolved through overlapping biological ...

To find out, Nieder and his colleague Philipp Schmidbauer put two carrion crows through the same task the monkeys faced, ...

The study was published in Science by researchers at the Institute of Neurobiology, University of Tübingen in Germany.

The European Wildlife Photographer of the Year ( EWPY) competition is now in its 26th year. Amateur and professional ...

Two carrion crows trained on a classic test of perception judged which way a cloud of dots was drifting in under a quarter of ...

A new study traced the forebrain and hindbrain to separate evolutionary lineages, then researchers used that discovery to ...

Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the ...

International Sloth Day celebrates the fascinating biology, ancient ancestors, hidden ecosystems, and remarkable adaptations ...

National Reptile Awareness Day highlights the remarkable abilities, ancient origins, and surprising scientific discoveries ...