A University of Portsmouth student has discovered a new species of prehistoric mammal dating back 145 million years to the ...

Some mammals are capable of hibernating during periods of low food availability in an effort to conserve energy and survive.

Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered how a cluster of thalamic neurons links physical pain to emotional trauma, ...

The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, ...

Killer whales are one of the most intelligent animals; only humans have a larger brain relative to their body size, according ...

A team has made a major breakthrough in the field of three-dimensional (3D) imaging of large-scale biological tissues. They ...

When you picture a flower and a pollinator, the odds are you’re imagining a colorful, perfumed flower, and a honeybee.

To put it simply, yes, they are venomous. But are they extremely dangerous? Not quite. Water moccasins are compelling ...

Although deaths from cancer have gone down over the last couple decades, the disease remains one of the leading causes of death in the United States, just as it has for the last 75 years, according to ...

In his speech for the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR) this past spring, keynote speaker Rodney ...

New research shows how the brain replays and organizes memories, even compressing long experiences into short, fixed-length ...