Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells arrange ...

A group of teeny tiny mouse-deer in the family Tragulidae numbers 10 species that live in warmer parts of Southeast Asia, India, and Africa. They are small, delicate, and extremely elusive: they are ...

In the animal kingdom, some creatures live incredibly short lives, ranging from a few hours to a week. These species, ...

Sloths weren’t always the slow, tree-hugging creatures we know today. For millions of years, they came in a wild variety of ...

Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be ...

An entire field of study is devoted to biomimetics sometimes referred to as biomimicry Having evolved over millennia to adapt to challenges and figure out the best survival mechanisms living organisms ...

Due to the fact that the personal pronoun, I, is only one letter long in English ... The most famous example is “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” (which is believed to have ...

Keep your summers safe and fun by avoiding these nasty outdoor hazards in Wisconsin, from deer ticks to poison sumac.

Even the best batteries fall far short of animal metabolism for energy storage. Fueling robots with ‘food’ could narrow the ...

Zoos will be required to give animals more enclosure space as “long overdue” welfare reforms come into place. The Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) said new standards ...