Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

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

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

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

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

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

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously thought, but also in echinoderms (invertebrates). This is one of the most ...

Quick Take England will ban live boiling of lobsters, a nerve-center policy change set to come into force as part of animal ...

Scientists found that adult bristleworm eyes grow continuously thanks to a rim of neural stem cells similar to those in vertebrate eyes. This growth is surprisingly regulated by environmental light ...

What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in the wild. The ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $148,000 grant to Lycoming College’s David Broussard, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, for work on a project entitled, “Silty streams and ...