A study reveals that the superior colliculus (SC) is significantly involved in visual categorization and decision-making, not ...

The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important locations in space, like directing their eyes and head toward a bright ...

The fossils show a time of dramatic changes. Around 375 million years ago, fish dragged themselves out of the water on ...

Now, a new study from the University of Bristol and China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) claims that global warming caused ...

The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important locations in space, like directing their eyes and head toward a bright ...

I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...

One of the most iconic animals in the world is the giant Galapagos tortoise. Known as one of the longest-living vertebrates in the world, these animals are magnificent and awe-inspiring. If only they ...

Not only are the lizards able to stay underwater for an extended period of time, they do so by creating air bubbles on their snouts that they “rebreathe,” Swierk said in a study published Sept. 18 in ...

You may have seen memes with clever nicknames for certain wildlife: a penguin is renamed a Tuxedo Chicken, a peacock is ...

When talking about studies involving biodiversity and microbiomes, much is known about the bacteria that inhabit environmental and clinical samples. However, there is a world beyond prokaryotes that ...

His research on the evolution and development of vertebrates has made a decisive contribution to our current knowledge of the basic processes of embryonic development in mammals. In the course of his ...

A zoo has welcomed the birth of an antelope so critically endangered there are just 50 left in the wild. Navari, a female ...