Discover why tiny Amazon insects are so vulnerable to heat and what their decline could mean for forests, wildlife, and people.

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell - from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division - scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

This Journal of Raptor Research issue focuses on movement ecology—how and why raptors move. This can include classic ...

A "peculiar" ancient relative of the crocodile which experts believe began life on four legs before, in adulthood, it learned ...

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, ...

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

The natural world has some pretty brutal gaps when it comes to how much time different species get. While a […] ...

Discover animals with the longest gestation periods, including elephants, sperm whales, rhinoceroses and walruses. Learn why ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

By manipulating animals to do wonderful things, we may become numb to their real wonder.

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...