Over billions of years, the drive to survive, reproduce, and outcompete rivals has pushed plants and animals to incredible ...

An analysis of thousands of forest plots reveals an underappreciated link between animal biodiversity and carbon storage ...

As the Trump administration reshapes biomedicine, it wants to change how scientists test drug safety: animal research.

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the ...

T he Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project aims to sequence the genomes of all animals, fungi and plants found in Great Britain ...

The study of our animal cohabitants often provides valuable insight into the condition of humanity, but animals have also been a gateway to understanding the natural world. The latest volume of Osiris ...

Scientists reported administering an HIV gene therapy once to primates of different ages through simple injections into ...

The number of peer-reviewed studies using iNaturalist data has surged more than tenfold in the past five years, new research shows.

The researchers showed that following deforestation, naturally-regrowing tropical forests, with healthy populations of ...

From sonar to smart robots, animals have sparked some of the most advanced tools in science and tech. See how humanity is ...

Soft-bodied Cambrian fossils found in the Grand Canyon reveals how early animals evolved complex feeding systems over 500 ...

Of the 26 scat samples that yielded DNA, the method was able to correctly identify individual foxes with an accuracy of 94.5–99.5% when comparing multiple samples from the same animal. The technique ...