A new study suggests that conserving just 0.7% of global land could protect a third of threatened vertebrate species, ...

A species of semi-aquatic lizard produces a special bubble over its nostrils to breathe underwater. (Photo by Lindsey Swierk ...

The team of Professor Christof Niehrs at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany, has discovered that a ...

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A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team led by ...

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The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

Animals including mammals usually protect their brains from infiltrating microbes that can cause disease. But some fish seem to do just fine.

The "fastest evolving vertebrate" title is hotly contested, but here are a few contenders.