Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, mammals and birds have the largest brains in relation to their body size, ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

A team of scientists at the University of Seville has identified an essential process that protects DNA integrity in reproductive cells, providing new clues about how organisms avoid genetic defects ...

An international team of researchers has discovered three new, bizarre, and wart-covered species of tree toads from Tanzania ...

Every year in (most of) the U.S., we move our clocks ahead one hour in the spring and one hour back in the fall. That time in between is called daylight saving time. (That’s right, drop that “s.”) As ...