Five new animal species that camouflage themselves as excrement or bark reveal some of what still remains hidden in the world ...

An international team of researchers, with the involvement of the UAB, has conducted a study that explains the evolutionary ...

Somewhere between life and death is the Alaskan Tree Frog. Discover how this amphibian freezes and lives to tell the tale.

The scale of violence we inflict on our fellow creatures is hard to comprehend. Humans kill more than a trillion aquatic and land animals for food every year. To put ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

Scientists are looking into the cells of creatures like whales and mole rats to see if they have lessons for humans.

Animals have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, taking micro naps during parenting, sleeping on the wing during ...

For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a new type of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell that elicits a more controlled immune response to cancer in mice—effectively ...