Life exists in surprising forms. Several creatures, including flatworms, jellyfish, and sponges, survive and thrive without a ...

The brain is the basic functioning organ behind living creatures. But as nature is endowed with limitless surprises, it is no ...

Species conservation succeeds only when it strengthens whole ecosystems. Focusing on a single animal can harm the broader web ...

Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt,” according to a new study. Photo from Venti Views, UnSplash It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh-pooh.

Paleontologists have recently unearthed a significant discovery in the Nilpena Ediacara National Park, located in the remote outback of South Australia. The find, a species named Quaestio simpsonorum, ...

A moose, a deer and a fox walk into a tunnel. It might sound like the setup for a joke, but it's actually a scene that wildlife ecologist Patricia Cramer captured while studying how animals use ...

Tracking units on the shell of a wood turtle. The tracking information these GPS units collect is used to understand how wood turtles move throughout the year. Image credit: Smithsonian's Movement of ...

By analyzing Escherichia coli (E. coli) genomes, researchers have shown that antimicrobial resistant bacteria and the genes ...