Certain species of wasps and frogs share a pain and inflammation peptide similar to one found in vertebrates to help defend against predators—a discovery that contributes to a shifting view of how ...

A blue morpho butterfly, native to the tropical forests of Central and South America Derkarts via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 ...

Touching your tongue to frozen metal must be a rite of passage if you're a five-year-old boy from a cold place. It's possibly more irresistible than hopping in mud puddles or sampling a newly frosted ...

Pottery remains reveal secrets of ancient Europeans’ surprisingly complex diet - Plants and aquatic foods played key role in ...

Sleepy Eye Future Farmers of America members competed at Tracy, Minnesota for the Region VI Companion Animals, Fish & ...

Scientists have used a laser technique to analyze Charles Darwin’s original Galápagos specimens without opening their nearly ...

Tyrannosaurus rex may have taken far longer to grow up than scientists once thought. By analyzing growth rings in fossilized leg bones from 17 tyrannosaur specimens and using new statistical methods, ...

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Researchers at the University of Vienna have uncovered a surprising phenomenon: polymer chains with segments that simply ...

Once-threatened koala populations in parts of Australia are showing surprising signs of genomic recovery, according to a ...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.