One theory is that, despite the diversity of life on Earth, there might be similarities in how various species process ...

Amid this controversy, Russian biologist Ilya Ivanov set out in the mid-1920s to crossbreed humans and chimpanzees. Ivanov ...

White-winged choughs run elaborate cons on rival bird families, performing courtship dances and offering food to fledglings ...

Scientists studying one of nature's greatest reproductive innovations have discovered how some lizards evolved from laying ...

"Pheromone maxxing' has people talking about skipping showers, avoiding deodorant usage, choosing to wear sweaty shirts and ...

The mouthparts of an adult female blacklegged tick, also known as a deer tick. The outer protrusions are used to secure a ...

To date, almost everything we know about whale shark mating and birthing comes from a single female called "megamamma," which in 1995 was found off the coast of Taiwan to be carrying around 300 ...

The younger bald eagle that Shadow has been seen hanging out with in Big Bear’s famous nest lately has a new name. Why it matters: “This is kind of the banders dream, right? You put bands on a bird so ...

A glass Mason jar full of fireflies has delighted countless numbers of young nature explorers, but what do these illuminating ...

To fight the growing risk posed by screwworm, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency approval to a liquid ...

And each time he is there in the fore- or background. When he moved to the Alps and began to write of the last peasants there ...