A slimy creature called the New World Screwworm (NWS) is causing people to crawl out of their skin, as officials warn the ...

Using animals for biomedical research purposes has been a significant part of scientific studies for a long time.

Farmers have dealt with pests since the advent of agriculture. Cats can catch mice, and fences can keep out rabbits. But what ...

Giant Pacific octopuses at the Seattle Aquarium learned to tell two people apart even when both wore identical uniforms, ...

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted ...

Early life experiences leave lasting epigenetic marks across multiple tissues, shaping aging and health in complex ways that ...

One marine species living at the bottom of the Antarctic seafloor may hold the key to future treatments for melanoma.

Two to three new viruses capable of infecting humans have been discovered every year, a major new study from three ...

On June 29, Gracie the Giraffe returned to her South Texas ranch after a 17-day walkabout and attendant media sensation. ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.