When parts of the south sit below 50°F for hours, cold-blooded life slows, hides, or tumbles into the headlines. Iguanas lose ...

OLLOBOT reports on the rise of cyber-pets, AI-driven companions reshaping relationships in a digital age, signaling evolving ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved. Though fully grown adults were remarkably small and lightweight, their ...

New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 ...

A tiny, plant-eating dinosaur about the same size of a chicken that occupied what’s now northern Spain some 125 million years ...

Recent discoveries about an alvarezsaur called Manipulonyx have drawn renewed attention to this group of bird-like, clawed creatures and the mysteries around their anatomy and behavior ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

Meet Lady Gaga, the albino carpet python celebrity whose retirement reveals what “aging gracefully” means for snakes.

Termites did not evolve complex societies by adding new genetic features. Instead, scientists found that they became more ...

Pythons can tolerate saltwater and freshwater and have been observed swimming in Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay.

This animal's armor has upended a key law of evolution For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – were an ancient ...

The molecular clock theory posits that genetic changes happen steadily and gradually, offering a reliable means for peering into the past and theorizing when complex life first emerged. However, there ...