Two new studies found that a small, missing piece of DNA located next to a specific protein resulted in orange fur coloration ...

The horse originated in North America around four million years ago. As changing sea levels created land bridges between ...

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...

Researchers found the gene and genetic variation behind orange fur in most domestic cats, solving a decades-long mystery.

New fossilized tracks made by an ancient reptile indicate that these animals evolved tens of millions of years sooner than ...

The ability to cooperate and work together is not unique to humans; indeed, it's one of the most successful strategies for ...

The African wild dog is one of Africa's most endangered predators. African wild dogs are highly elusive, avoiding human ...

Most current techniques are more than a century old and involve injecting venom into horses and other animals ... The next step was to sequence the DNA from Friede’s b-cells (a type of immune ...

This snake acts like it's dead by rolling onto its back and staying still when threatened. Some shrews freeze when danger is near, pretending to be dead to escape predators. Opossums "play dead" when ...

I was already excited to see a vampire movie focusing on Black characters ... We pay homage to our ancestors and understand they live within our DNA. They are the closest thing we have to the ...

DNA analysis has helped scientists trace the ... However, true hematophagy (blood-feeding) remains rare among birds compared to other animal groups like insects (mosquitoes, bedbugs) and mammals ...

DNA analysis has helped scientists trace the ... However, true hematophagy (blood-feeding) remains rare among birds compared to other animal groups like insects (mosquitoes, bedbugs) and mammals ...