A velvet ant sting is like “hot oil spilling over your hand” – now, scientists have identified molecules in its venom that ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the US these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

The Central Valley is home to many of California's most vulnerable groups to bird flu: agricultural workers. It's also where ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

“The deer mouse (genus Peromyscus) is the most abundant mammal in North America and it occupies almost every type of ...

Scientists have unearthed a remarkable fossil of a gorgonopsian, a saber-toothed predator they believe to be the oldest ever discovered.

Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog-like creature that was ...

In 2018, researchers observed J35 pushing her dead calf along for 17 days, propping it up for more than 1,000 miles. The calf had died shortly after it was born, and the mother and her closely knit ...

Birds are the undisputed champions of epic travel -- but they are not the only long-haul fliers. A handful of bats are known to travel thousands of kilometers in continental migrations across North ...

By Stephen Beech Bats are "riders on the storm" when they migrate thousands of miles across continents, reveals new research. The winged mammals surf storm fronts as they traverse Europe, ...

The study utilized an ultra-lightweight sensor—just 5% of the weight of the bat's body mass—developed by engineers at MPI-AB.

Hiccups arise from involuntary spasms of the diaphragm, the muscle beneath the lungs that controls breathing. When triggered, the spasm causes a sudden intake of breath, which is interrupted by the ...