A UW-led research team uncovered the fossil of a 75-million-year-old mammal that was roughly the size of a golden hamster, ...
Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...
As married research professors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Dustin Gilbert and Anne Murray often discuss their work once they get home each night. Their fields of study rarely crossover.
The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, one of the region's most unexpected survivors is a population of free-roaming dogs that may offer insight into how life adapts in contaminated ...
Scientists have ranked all known flowering plants and found that more than 20% of their evolutionary history is now at risk ...
Some owl families are totally invisible from the forest floor.
Some animals are so good at hiding that people walk right past them without even knowing they were there. A snake on a vine ...
The study also points to environmental conditions as another factor behind the evolutionary success of crabs. The researchers ...
Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found ...
From color-changing skin to jet-propelled motion, squid and cuttlefish have long fascinated scientists. To understand the origins of their unique characteristics, many attempts have been made to ...