Tag: animals

The idea of horse whisperers – those with a talent for communicating with horses – may bring a chuckle to ...

In the wild, it might seem like male animals run the show. But in a review publishing in Trends in ...

Early animals formed complex ecological communities more than 550 million years ago, setting the evolutionary stage for the Cambrian explosion, ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University, and the University of Naples, have examined the mass extinction of large animals over the ...

For a new plant to grow from a seed, cells need to divide numerous times. Daughter cells can each take ...

Wealth inequality is a research topic typically reserved for humans. Now, research from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior ...

Paleontologists have discovered sets of fossils representing three new ichthyosaurs that may have been among the largest animals to have ...

Trees of the species Pouteria bullata, which is endemic to Brazil and whose common name is guapeva-vermelha, are found solely in the ...

The spindly filaments and coral-like colonies of the ancient phylum of marine animals known as bryozoans likely aren't the first ...

WASHINGTON — An international research team led by scientists at Georgetown University has found that humans might give viruses back ...

A series of studies on endangered species that make their homes on the border of Vietnam and China underscores the ...

Few human adults gallop; the equine gait tends to be the preserve of little kids mimicking horses or exercise classes. ...

A Yale School of the Environment-led study that investigated the impacts of a mange outbreak that killed vicuñas in a ...

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A team of scientists used an emerging genetic tool that analyzes DNA in water samples to detect whales and dolphins ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Your DNA holds the blueprint to build your body, but it’s a living document: Adjustments to ...

Many of today’s marine invertebrates, including sponges and jellyfish, have chromosomes with the same ancient structure they inherited from their ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I.  — To find treatments for connective tissue disorders like fibrosis, scientists need models that can replicate the structure ...

MADISON, Wis. — To get through a long winter without food, hibernating animals — like the 13-lined ground squirrel — ...

Beautiful “supertramp” birds in Southeast Asia are providing unique insights into how evolution is linked to flight ability and competition. ...