Can a monkey, a pigeon or a fish reason like a person? It's a question scientists have been testing in increasingly creative ...

For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations.

During animal development, cells divide and arrange themselves in a coordinated way, eventually forming the embryo. The cells communicate with one another during this process through cell-surface ...

A clever artist is turning ordinary household cutlery into stunning sculptures of animals. Darrell Olsen creates sculptures ...

A clever artist is turning ordinary household cutlery into stunning sculptures of animals. Darrell Olsen creates sculptures ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

The animal kingdom showcases remarkable camouflage, with various creatures mimicking leaves for survival. From the giant leaf insect of Southeast Asia to the satanic leaf-tailed gecko of ...

Taking a blobfish out of water is like “heating something that’s glued together and the glue starts to melt.” ANIMALS The 'ugly' blobfish doesn't look like this—when it's underwater ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new ...