The world's first lab-based tick feeding system for bush ticks, developed by researchers at the University of Melbourne, has ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

A new study tracing the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior in mammals, using phylogenetic analyses, suggests these behaviors may have evolved in part to strengthen social bonding and relationships.

UC ANR scientists are at Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center studying how seaweed additives could be incorporated into cattle grazing systems to reduce methane production.

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass, and disrupts ecological processes, thereby posing challenges for the ...

Peto's paradox, or the disconnect between body size and cancer occurrence across species, is one of comparative biology's most curious cases. Size varies substantially across the animal kingdom, from ...

Scientists with the University of South Florida want to learn more about how the coronavirus spreads between humans and wildlife. They’re involved in a national study funded by the U.S. Department of ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

The 550-million-year-old fossil Tribrachidium heraldicum is one of the most enigmatic critters from the Ediacaran. With its circular, three-lobe form, it doesn't resemble any modern organism. The ...

In the largest study of its kind, scientists have accurately documented the massive change in animal morphology over the last 1,000 years, with domesticated animals growing larger across the board and ...

Our analysis showed that temporal perception has even greater variation than scientists may have realised. Our perceptual ...