animals

Discovering fossilized insects is difficult, but a new find suggests a unique place to look.

Humans could, in theory, one day use scaling laws to extend our lifespans.

Evolutionary success is not about the number of one’s children, but one’s grandchildren: the children need to survive and pass on their genes.

The skeleton of the world’s oldest known shark attack victim exhibits telltale wounds.

A virtuous diet isn’t strictly vegan.

These distant cousins of starfish live on sea floors around the globe.

A new study reveals what caused most life on Earth to die out during the end-Permian extinction, also known as the Great Dying.

Traditional Chinese medicine and Vietnamese culture are driving the pangolin to extinction.

Metal-like materials have been discovered in a very strange place.

That’s as fast as a bullet train in Japan.

A school lesson leads to more precise measurements of the extinct megalodon shark, one of the largest fish ever.

Researchers develop a fungus that kills mites that contribute to honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder.

Mastodons, rhinos, and even camels — all in the great state of California.

Could this spell the end for mosquitos?

Some wild animals thrive near humans, but only up to a point.

Life finds a way — in this case, by smelling like death.

The Vertebrate Genomes Project may spell good news for the kakapo and the vaquita.

It’s time to rethink how satellites and other objects are made and eventually destroyed.

“The question is which are okay, which are not okay.”

A simple trick allowed marine biologists to prove a long-held suspicion.

This spring, a U.S. and Chinese team announced that it had successfully grown, for the first time, embryos that included both human and monkey cells.

Roughly the size of a thumbnail, this newly discovered toadlet has some anatomical surprises.

The size of rabbits and hares has long been evolutionarily constrained by competitors roughly their size.

A study from Carnegie Mellon University tracks the travels of tarantulas since the Cretaceous period.

A newly discovered coronavirus — but not the one that causes COVID-19 — has made some dogs very sick.

The ‘Monkeydactyl’ was a flying reptile that evolved highly specialized adaptations in the Mesozoic Era.

A recent study analyzed the skulls of early Homo species to learn more about the evolution of primate brains.

Ultimately, this is a fight between a giant reptile and a giant primate.

Snakes and mammals share common genetic building blocks necessary for producing venom.

We can’t ask them, so scientists have devised an experiment.