Aquaculture is now the fastest-growing food production sector globally, supplying more than half of the fish and seafood ...

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, ...

The unexpected observation of a cow using a broom to scratch herself isn't necessarily surprising, but it expands our ...

Discovered more than six decades ago, the Tully Monster remains one of the most puzzling fossils ever studied. Despite ...

A research trip to Antarctica uncovered marine life that hadn't been seen before in one of the world's most remote spots.

A team of scientists has uncovered a new species of worm-like caecilian from the northern Western Ghats. The new species, ...

Panaji: The discovery of a new species of caecilian, gegeneophis valmiki at Paneri, Palashi, in Maharashtra’s Satara district has cheered wildlifers, as the Western Ghats tally of gegeneophis group ...

A lake skygazer shows accelerated aging when exposed to chronic low doses of the insecticide chlorpyrifos, according to ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

A comprehensive new review synthesizing decades of research warns that the Brazilian Cerrado—a biodiversity hotspot, known ...