When the days get shorter and the nights start to grow cold, some birds take to the wing and disappear, flowing south in an ...
Scientists discovered fossilized reptile skin in an Oklahoma cave, revealing the oldest known example dating back nearly 300 million years.
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.
They found that the shrews’ brain cells lose water but crucially do not die, meaning that the animals retain their brain ...
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates 14.5 million wild vertebrate animals are killed on Oregon’s roadways ...
New research shows how the Greenland shark’s heart keeps working for centuries by tolerating aging rather than avoiding it.
A new study finds mosquitoes in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest are increasingly feeding on humans as deforestation reduces wildlife ...
The long-living sharks aren't as blind as once thought and have DNA repair mechanisms that may help prevent their vision from ...
Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are highly social, but those social ties can also help diseases spread through ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
W hat female mosquitoes choose to feed on has a bearing on human health, since they transmit pathogens from one host to ...
“Not only do these spiders occasionally catch small vertebrates – mice, rats, frogs, lizards, snakes – they also catch bulky ...