animals
Americans on average consumed about 58 pounds of beef and veal in 2019 – compared with a global average of 14 pounds.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.
Human beings are descendants of these early tetrapods – at least those who made a new life on land.
Let’s hope that squid don’t evolve lungs and legs, or humanity might be in real trouble.
The zebras were originally part of a newspaper tycoon’s private zoo. Now they roam the San Simeon grasslands, growing in numbers.
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
It might be good for your memory.
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
Predatory dinosaurs with big skulls tend to have tiny arms. Researchers propose there might be a direct link between those traits.
Flies are in no way smart, but they experience time in an almost Matrix-like fashion.
Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.
The good news is that it can be countered with acne medication.
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
A successful trial that tested a vaccine against bladder cancer in dogs could help develop a similar one for humans.
There’s a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.
More than 90% of human faces are home to mites that live in our skin pores. These friendly guests might be merging with us.
Research sheds light on social behavior of these mysterious predators.
There’s an enormous evolutionary advantage for flamingos to stand on one leg, but genetics doesn’t help. Only physics explains why.
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
All marbled crayfish descended from a single clone discovered in Heidelberg, Germany in 1995.
“Lac-Phe” grants obese mice the benefits of exercise — without exercising. But don’t expect an “exercise pill.”
It’s not about leaves in tall trees.
For 40 years, scientists thought a specific gene was linked to aggression in hamsters. Removing it, however, had violent consequences.
The long-standing debate over whether dinosaurs were more like birds or lizards is drawing to a close.