According to fossils preserved by volcanic ash, the plants, known as angiosperms, began producing relatively large, blueberry ...

How to tell the difference between a common frog and a common toad; Think toads are ugly? Think again – as these stunning ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends ...

The return of the New World screwworm has triggered one of the most intensive animal-health responses seen in North America for decades. From AI-assisted surveillance systems and enhanced border ...

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they bother.

Artist’s impression of an Ediacaran animal community. Credit: Hugo Salais A new study suggests evolution stayed stuck for millions of years until sexual reproduction helped unleash a burst of ...

The way that Earth's first animals reproduced held back life's diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of sexual reproduction, which in turn accelerated ...

At first glance, a solar farm in Minnesota looked like any other clean energy project, with neat rows of panels built to send electricity onto the grid. Then workers planted native prairie flowers and ...

Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant Unit 3 after the explosion. Credit: 資源エネルギー庁 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0 A new genetic study has revealed how escaped domestic pigs rapidly mixed with wild boar ...

Gaon Cable has signed a busduct supply contract worth up to 4 trillion won, or about $2.7 billion, with a major U.S. tech. company for data centers.