Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

The earliest use of bright colors in animals served as a warning system, a strategy seen in venomous snakes and poison dart frogs.

Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the Rings.

Colors evolved for survival, with animals using them for warnings and mating, and plants attracting pollinators.

Nov. 4, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals ...

Researchers have discovered up to 10 previously unknown species of now-extinct trilobites in ... Tuff-bearing upper Cambrian to lowermost Ordovician strata on Ko Tarutao island, Satun province, ...

Aurochs are an extinct species of cattle that died out around 400 years ago. They once roamed Europe, Asia, and Africa and ...

Animals can be put into groups based on the types of food they eat. Some animals called carnivores only eat meat. Others are called ‘herbivores’. They only eat plants. Animals need to eat so ...

Climate change currently affects at least 10,967 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ™, increasing the likelihood of their extinction. The Bramble Cay melomys (Melomys rubicola) is the ...