Pupping grounds, where mother sharks deliver and their babies start their lives, are unknown, despite the pups being ...

A female blanket octopus has to be up there as one of the most spectacular sea creatures to see alive in the wild. Growing to the length of an adult human, they trail an iridescent rainbow skirt as ...

Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of the ...

The researchers believe topographic features on the seafloor, like submarine canyons and gullies, are one of the many factors that shape the direction and strength of near-bed ocean currents. However, ...

Unlike Dolní Věstonice 13, Ötzi can’t be said to display a Neanderthal-like thorax, although his barrel-chested body plan does suggest that he was specifically adapted to living in cold environments.

As Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Paul Griffin explains in a recent piece for The Conversation, Stratus is ...

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Known to science as Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly can be found across Central and South America. A reasonably common ...

By the 1920s, Brazil’s rubber trees had caught the eye of car manufacturer Henry Ford who had a bright idea: why pay the exorbitant costs of Asia’s growing rubber markets when he could simply buy a ...

According to NASA, the Perseids is considered the best meteor shower of the year, largely due to the long streaks of color they leave as they head through our atmosphere, as well as their sheer ...

That study found that when asked to choose random numbers between one and five, the LLMS would choose three or four. For between one and 10, most would choose five and seven, and between one and 100, ...

With pale skin, a slinky body, and puny limbs, the olm resembles a ghostly, aquatic serpent that spends its life in dark, ...