After dozens of tigers died at a Thai park, here’s a reminder of the activities to avoid – and the responsible practices to ...

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...

Study argues to move beyond ‘reading genes’ — focus on conserved neural-development networks in humans to improve early screening and identify therapeutic leads.

In 250 million years, Earth’s continents may merge into a supercontinent so extreme that most mammals would struggle to survive.

For 37 years, Phil Unitt has been building and caring for The Nat’s extensive bird and mammal collection. But later this ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This ...

The earliest ancestors of all backboned animals, including humans, may have viewed the world with four eyes, not just two.

A detailed annotation of anatomical brain structures (some novel) of the spider Uloborus diversus is provided based on a three-dimensional immunostain atlas.

Key points Genomics delves into the genetic make-up of organisms, which helps us understand how they work.With new ...

At least 1.2 million scorpion stings are recorded each year – and around 3,000 people, mainly children, die from them.