Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant ...

Anxiety, the psychological and physiological state characterized by an anticipation of potential threats and a heightened ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

Legislation sponsored by Sens. Nilsa I. Cruz-Perez (D-5) and Douglas J. Steinhardt (R-23) to ban octopus farming in New ...

Bird migration is just about over here in Massachusetts. Most of the birds we see now are the summer resident birds that nest ...

New research shows the anti-aging drug Rapamycin extends lifespan as effectively as dietary restriction in vertebrates.

The anti-aging drug Rapamycin has the same life-extending effect as eating less, according to new research from the University of East Anglia and University of Glasgow.

A large meta-analysis has found that the drug leading the charge in anti-aging science is just as effective in protecting ...

Drift outside the realm of vertebrates, however, and you can generate an intelligent brain in much weirder ways—from our perspective, anyway. “It’s a Wild West,” she said.