If there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I love natural history. I worked in a natural history museum for ...

This makes the vampire bat a very unusual animal indeed, since most vertebrates rely primarily on the metabolism of ...

"However, one group of vertebrates has evolved to share a love of eating blood: vampire bats. And, unlike most bats, vampire ...

The researchers found that vampire bats — like blood-sucking insects — are capable of metabolizing amino acids as a primary ...

Colors are widely used in communication within and among animal species. For example, peacocks proudly display their vibrant ...

A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the emergence of colorful fruits and flowers. And there has been a dramatic explosion of color signals in ...

This research is among the first to closely examine how chronic, low-level radiation affects the physiology of animals in ...

Sleep is one of the most mysterious, yet ubiquitous components of our biology. It has been described in all major groups of animals, including worms, jellyfish, insects or cephalopods, and in all ...

A local Secret Santa is giving $1 million to deserving people in eastern Idaho this holiday season and the East Idaho News ...

Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...

Are neurons star players, or do they prioritise teamwork? A new study has uncovered an answer for this long-standing debate ...

New research is shedding light on mysterious sleep mechanisms in an unexpected source: the Australian dragon lizard.