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

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

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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The rare footage was captured on an Africam Live Cam at Naledi Bush Lodge in South Africa. It shows several African sharptooth catfish doing their best impression of walking in what feels like an ...

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 ...

When the days get shorter and the nights start to grow cold, some birds take to the wing and disappear, flowing south in an ...

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 ...