In a mid-sized lake of Switzerland, a “robust” creature with “slim” bumpy lips swam through the shallow water, or it tried to, at least. But something zapped it and caused it to float to the surface.

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

Fans of The Simpsons might remember the episode where disgruntled dolphins storm Springfield, march down Main Street and ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

A new study published in Cell on July 10 has reported the world's fastest high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) imaging technology for the entire ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

Snakes get rid of waste in the same way that other animals do. Once everything has been completely digested, the waste goes ...

Imagine stumbling upon a moment frozen in time: a wild feline, claws unsheathed, eyes locked in fierce determination, ...

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone ...

Early summer brings our hottest, driest weather. It’s a major challenge both for landscape plants and for those in the ...

Two killer whales have been caught "kissing" on camera in a fiord in northern Norway. A group of ...