Islands are biodiversity hotspots. They only make up 5 percent of the world’s land mass, but they are home to 20 percent of ...

Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant ...

In the Andes Mountains of northern Peru, a long-tailed mammal with a “facial mask” moved through the undergrowth. Suddenly, ...

We were trying to learn how certain animals lost their regeneration capacity during evolution and then put back the ...

During their expedition to the Mindoro forest from 2013 to 2017, field biologists led by Filipino scientist Dr. Danilo Balete ...

The mystery of a 146,000-year-old skull has been solved — using plaque extracted from a tooth. The skull, nicknamed “Dragon ...

A new book offers a valuable discussion of the double bind in which many researchers and lab technicians find themselves: having to care for animals who will then be killed.

The findings of a new study "clearly show that interfering with the environment has a detectable effect on wildlife," a ...

The first mice to be created from two fathers, a phenomenon known as androgenesis, have now produced healthy offspring for ...

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...