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 ...

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.

New staple-size frog is one of the tiniest ever discovered “Astronomically small,” the newly discovered Malagasy amphibians have brains that could sit on a pin.

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 ...

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

For over a century, scientists have puzzled over a fundamental mystery in our evolutionary history: how did mammals go from sprawling like lizards to ...