Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

Biologists have long puzzled over how organs develop into their final shapes, and the nearly transparent bodies of young sea ...

A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

Successful reproduction presents a fundamental evolutionary paradox: the immune system must tolerate genetically foreign sperm and embryos while maintaining ...

Leviathan melvillei was one of the most terrifying marine predators to ever exist, dominating the oceans millions of years before humans appeared . This gigantic prehistoric sperm whale reached ...

In people with severely compromised immune systems, JC polyomavirus can trigger an untreatable, often fatal brain disease. An ...

The study helps fill a major gap in the fossil record. Cyclothone may be tiny, but they play an outsized role in ocean ...

Climate crisis and warming waters have attracted long-toothed pufferfish to new parts of the Mediterranean ...

For centuries, humans have told stories about the legendary Kraken, a huge octopus that coud sink ships whole. But roughly ...

An Indianapolis woman faces animal cruelty charges after her two dogs died from being left inside a hot vehicle parked ...

Scientists have discovered a novel antiviral defense system in sea anemones, entirely distinct from human immunity. This ...

Here's what's making news in the South West and Great Southern WA regions today. Concern over Alcoa alumina deal.