ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their ...

Not all animal diseases are zoonotic diseases, some are zoonotic, some are non-zoonotic, and some are reverse zoonotic ...

A Proceedings of the Royal Society B study of 5,600 mammals found that two species will never return to dry land.

One of the most striking things about these creatures, however, is the fact that each of their eight arms almost seems to ...

three researchers point out in the December issue of Animal Behaviour. Tallying just the examples from vertebrates reported in scientific journals, the authors document coprophagy in more than 150 ...

These interactions have been proposed to be functionally relevant across mechanosensory organs and vertebrate species. Here, we show that both CIB2 and CIB3 can form heteromeric complexes with TMC1 ...

But are humans the only species that makes art? If we take art to be something that is beautiful and consciously created – and animals consciously create things that look like art – shouldn ...

“With evolutionary advances, it is possible, if not probable, that they might develop ways to breathe outside of water and eventually hunt terrestrial animals like deer ... Earth’s past is packed with ...

Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Bacteria are in, around and all over us. They thrive in almost every corner of the planet, from deep-sea hydrothermal vents to high ...

FOR long we have accepted as well-established and equivalent the five classes of vertebrate animals, but recent zoological research, particularly on the palaeontological side, has modified many ...