Shape matters as well as size in the great range of male frog show-off equipment for competitive seductive serenades.

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding ...

Vine snakes refer to several genera of snakes in the family Colubridae. They include Oxybelis, a genus of New World vine ...

1. David Frederick Attenborough was born on May 8, 1926 in Isleworth, Middlesex, the same year as Queen Elizabeth II. 2. His ...

Nestled in the heart of Florida’s surprisingly hilly central region sits Sebring, a town that defies the state’s flashy reputation by offering authentic charm without the premium price tag.

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years ...

SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe bats. This group also includes the viral strain responsible for the 2002 ...

This allowed them to map the viruses' evolutionary history across Asia prior to their emergence in humans. This is not ... to make their viral family tree. This map revealed that sarbecoviruses ...

Researchers at Peking University have discovered that a filamentous gut fungus, Fusarium foetens, can reverse metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH) in mice. These findings have ...

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results, published in Current ...

and it’s all because of the human aesthetic preferences that go into breeding them. After analyzing the shapes of about 2,800 skulls of cats, dogs and their wild brethren, evolutionary ...