Uncovering the secrets behind their immortality could provide valuable insights into aging in mammals, including humans. As we age, the body undergoes natural changes, including the gradual loss of ...

A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...

If you go walking in the wild, you might expect that what you're seeing is natural. All around you are trees, shrubs and ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

During seal season in Connecticut, the New Haven Police Department and Mystic Aquarium's animal rescue team combined forces ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Millions of animals are at risk, but what are the rarest animals in the world? These are some of the most endangered animals, ...

There is growing concern in Queensland after an underweight koala was spotted with strange devices strapped ... Veterinary Ecology (EVE) to use animals for scientific purposes. ' ...

Over 200 people responded to the post, with many commenters providing their guesses about the animal's identity. Many thought the creature in the photo wasn't an exotic or strange animal at all.

This breadth is incredibly strange. Why should any organism spend time pursuing such a wide range of goals, particularly if most of them have nothing to do with survival? Other animals are much ...