We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

Science writer Mary Roach returns to Bullseye. She joins us to talk about her latest book: Replaceable You: Adventures in ...

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

In Newen and Montemayor’s evolutionary framework, basic arousal developed first. It’s like nature’s security alarm, warning ...

Metabolism, far from being just a housekeeping function, underlies all changes in cell size and function ...

These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their ...

The carnivore diet includes only meat and animal foods, claiming to improve health. Learn its potential benefits, risks, and side effects before trying it.

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

A new study by researchers at Imperial College London and published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution could help shed ...

Animals have evolved crab-like bodies at least five times throughout history, a process known as carcinization.

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

Human intervention plays a big role in the success of ecological recovery, but sometimes, nature still does it better. A recently published study in the Journal of Applied Ecology calculated the rates ...