We humans couldn’t live without our gut microbes, but not all animals rely on microscopic digestive communities like we do.

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I have tried many strategies to help make my gut activity more predictable. I’ve taken both probiotics and prebiotic ...

The gaur, found in southern and southeast Asia, is the largest of these cattle, and a large gaur bull sometimes weighs as ...

An artist has created a microscopic replica of a Picasso painting, smaller than a flea, and it fits in the eye of a needle. David A. Lindon, 56, is a micro artist creating tiny sculptures which have ...

Scientists discover 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that reveal how ancient animals used Earth’s magnetic field as a ...

The secret to youthful appearance and repairing scars may lie in a microscopic skin structure humans share with pigs and ...

Scientists rediscover marine tardigrades, or "water bears," in Malaysia after 50 years, and describe a new species hidden in ...

Long before humans built labs, filed patents, or sketched blueprints, animals were already solving the same problems we struggle with today. Nature has spent millions of years refining ways to move ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

The marine biologists of the Schmidt Ocean Institute are a busy bunch. Over the last few years, scientists aboard the ...

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth's surface almost 3000 million years ago.