In the book "The Call of the Honeyguide," applied ecologist Rob Dunn explores mutually beneficial relationships between different species. But Dunn argues the relationship between humans and cats may ...

Over the long and complicated course of evolutionary history, mammals independently turned towards water to make a home multiple times. While many of the warm-blooded animals that abandoned dry land ...

In ACS Central Science, researchers report the discovery of a snail-derived compound that blocks clot formation while still ...

Any evolutionary biologist will tell you that humans are social creatures, with brains wired for touch, intimacy, and love. As small societies developed under conditions of food scarcity, prosocial ...

Brain scans show yawning may push fluid out of the brain and boost blood circulation, hinting that yawns help refresh the brain.

The Bank of England has told the BBC it is reflecting the wishes of the public by substituting Sir Winston Churchill and Jane Austen with British wildlife on its next series of banknotes. Political ...

Growth marks in bones indicate the age of some animals. But a new study leaves researchers questioning this method for dinosaurs.

A patient in China with hepatocellular carcinoma survived 171 days following xenotransplantation with a genetically modified ...

Large-scale evolutionary analysis shows most zoonotic viruses emerge without prior adaptation, while passing through a laboratory leaves detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool to interpret ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

There’s new information about the animal cruelty case that the ANNA Shelter called one of the most heinous they’ve had in ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more ...