A new study puts cuttlefish at center stage with the famous "marshmallow test," and shows that these soft-bodied hunters have what it takes.

A new study finds thousands of imperiled plants and animals meet Endangered Species Act criteria yet remain unlisted.

Before the Inca civilization rose to power in what’s now Peru, the Chincha Kingdom reigned as a prosperous society on the country’s southern coast. Now, scientists have discovered that seabird ...

Yawning can impact the flow of cerebrospinal fluid and venous blood flow, suggesting a regulation of neurofluids and increase ...

Researchers have identified a new type of visual cell in deep-sea fish larvae that challenges a century of knowledge about vertebrate visual systems.

Only a few days ago, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, an area the size of Connecticut and 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod, was the only marine national monument, a protected area, in the Atlantic ...

A chef's knife is what you've seen in books. The most classic looking knife. and both of them are fundamentally so different.

It’s no revelation that our health malfunctions as the years advance. But researchers believe that, rather than being a ...

Learn more about the hidden side of the U.S. frog trade, where undocumented species and import loopholes raise new conservation concerns.

And so, ships had cats, and so did traders’ caravans, and some of these felines stepped out nimbly at ports and settled on different continents. Domestic cats around the world today, in fact, can be ...

Kakapo are flightless, nocturnal parrots shaped by an island history with few mammalian predators. Males use deep booming ...

“ Tyrannoroter is the earliest and most complete vertebrate land herbivore to show adaptations that could process high-fiber ...