A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

These “walking sharks” can lay eggs without spending extra energy, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about reproduction.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental ...

Invasive apple snails continue to spread in San Antonio’s River Walk. Officials are testing new barrier systems to curb reproduction.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The San Antonio River Authority will monitor the new experimental barriers to see if they help control the population of invasive ...

Noe Calderas and Eddie Oropeza stood waist-deep in the San Antonio River, carefully attaching pieces of plastic to the concrete channel wall near the Pearl. “If only they were all that easy,” Oropeza ...

Usually, when a musician pops up on Jeopardy! it’s in the form of a clue (or, if you’re lucky like the Talking Heads, a whole category). Indie favorite Snail Mail made it onto the famed quiz show in a ...

With a shell that looks like a full moon, egg cases that look like broken pottery on the seafloor, a unique predatory style and even a feature comparable belly button, the moon snail that frequents La ...