Cats—unlike humans—are true carnivores: they must eat meat to survive because their bodies can't draw some essential ...

Governor Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration as more than 14,000 cases of New World screwworm have been ...

Bodies store hints about diets. Stable isotope analysis of tissues is widely used to reconstruct animal diets and food web relations – but results have the potential to be misleading, a new study ...

Baleen whales don’t have teeth. Instead, they use baleen, a filtering system that lets the largest animals on Earth feed on ...

Nipah is a rare viral infection that spreads largely from infected animals, mainly fruit bats, to humans. It can be ...

In the ongoing measles outbreak in South Carolina that has infected more than 800 people, some children have developed a rare ...

CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...

If true, this would make The Prince fossil the oldest known example of a modern human killed by a wild animal, and possibly ...

Stanford scientists report early research showing it may be possible to regrow cartilage, offering new hope for treating ...

Researchers developed bioengineered lymphatic tissue that replaced missing lymph nodes in mice, with potential to treat lymphedema.

Researchers note that toxin appeared to concentrate its effects within tumour tissue and did not cause any harmful inflammation in mice, such as effects on body weight, functions of vital organs and ...

Scientists in South Korea have discovered that one of the most common malignant brain tumors in young adults may begin years ...