While most animals reproduce sexually, some species rely solely on females for parthenogenetic reproduction. Even in these ...

Researchers in China have named a newly discovered fish species after the Studio Ghibli character San from "Princess Mononoke ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

A recent study using 3D skull analysis found no evidence that dog breeds bred for bite or scent work have specialized skull ...

Bárbara Calegari: No, not really. The genus of fish we were studying, Barbatula, is known for its genetic diversity. However, the individual species have a similar morphology, meaning similar external ...

By Keith Anthony Fabro Around 3.4 million years ago, a hidden evolutionary tale unfolded in the Indo-Burma region: a cryptic pangolin species diverged from the Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla).

The king cobra, previously believed to be a single species, is now identified as a complex of four distinct species due to genetic and morphological d ...

While most animals reproduce sexually, some species rely solely on females for parthenogenetic reproduction. Even in these ...

Researchers have found a new species of fungi that infects spiders turning them into 'zombies' in Ireland and Northern ...

The study, led by Nicholas Hebdon and Lindsay Waldrop and published in Science Advances on January 29, used advanced 3D ...

Researchers have confirmed the presence of a soupfin shark in the Salish Sea, an area where they were not previously thought ...

2019). Here, we present novel Bitbow1 flies which encode up to 32,767 unique “colors” (Bitbow codes) in a single transgenic animal. This allows reliable lineage tracing without complicated statistical ...