Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Across reptiles, birds, rodents, and humans, the brain showed the same slow rhythm, cycling over tens of seconds. This ...

Standing between two racks of whale bones in the National Museum Collection Centre in Granton, Professor Andrew Kitchener, Principal Curator ...

Overshadowed by the fact that myllokunmingids had four eyes is their age. Prior to this discovery, the oldest preserved ...

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

“While the human penis functions primarily to transfer sperm, our result suggests its unusual large size evolved as a sexual ...

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

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

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.

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

They found that the shrews’ brain cells lose water but crucially do not die, meaning that the animals retain their brain ...