As a shark tooth and fossil hunting enthusiast, I often have people ask me why I find fossils so fascinating. To me, the ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

When endangered species reach low numbers, their survival can depend on whether or not they have new habitats to live in, ...

Marine biotechnology and material science convergence is fundamentally transforming packaging capabilities. The integration ...

Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

Academy researchers identified 72 species new to science in 2025, including the newly recognized Galápagos lava heron, a shy deep-sea fish, and a rare sunflower relative found in a U.S. national park.

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots separated by large areas of deep ocean. In these zones, surviving jawed ...

Flash forward 10 years and Sivakumar had become an integrative biology major paid to conduct groundbreaking research into how the genes of closely related bird species help cause the variation in the ...