Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize itself into a complex organism. It underpins the diversity in the animal ...

Hainan province, bordered by some 2 million square kilometers of ocean, has unveiled plans to establish a tropical marine ...

Early in development, many animals pick a team—male or female—based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the characteristics to match. New research from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) ...

A reconstruction of what Manipulonyx reshetovi may have looked like TotalDino via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 4.0 Millions of years ago, a tiny dinosaur in what’s now Mongolia may have used its ...

There was a very strange tradition back in history where people used frogs to correctly identify if a patient was pregnant – ...

A genus of around 20 burrowing frog species found mostly in South Africa is famous for its members' short limbs, flat, angry-looking faces, and rounded “golf-ball” like bodies. Now, this collection of ...

Standards make everyday life run smoothly. You rarely notice them: the credit card that works in any corner of the world, the Wi-Fi signal that connects a remote village to the cloud, or the vaccine ...