Scientists confirm that orcas and dolphins have lost the ability to return to dry land due to irreversible evolutionary ...

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Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in ...

Credit: California Academy of Sciences/Cover Images The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

Most vertebrates living outside the tropical zone show robust physiological responses in response to seasonal changes in photoperiod, such as seasonal reproduction, molt, and migration. The highly ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

It has been estimated that cats across the UK kill tens of millions of wild animals each year - including birds, mammals, ...

Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years ...

Following a 7,000-mile-long rescue mission for conservation, 33 tiny Southern Darwin’s frogs ( Rhinoderma darwinii) were born ...

A local library encouraged parents to bring their children to its facility to promote literacy at an early age.

Great whites get all the glory, but bottom-dwelling sharks bring plenty to the table. Here, we're looking at some of our favorite seabed shark species.