Dwindling natural habitats are causing a significant decline in certain seahorse species. To bolster populations, researchers ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Cutting-edge technology in a lab at Florida Atlantic University was used to digitize the skeleton of the rarest marine mammal in the world, a porpoise called the vaquita, ensuring that the animal ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Scientists examined a fossilized plesiosaur’s soft tissue, revealing a unique mix of smooth and scaly skin. Smooth skin ...

Rapid FISH studies using probes specific for the X (DX1 ... the degree of virilisation of the internal genital tracts is defined by Prader stages I–V (fig 2). The anatomy of the vagina or a urogenital ...

Can fish feel pain? The debate rages among scientists as to whether fish do, in fact, feel pain or are just reacting ...

Previously, the research group led by Professor Akihisa Terakita and Professor Mitsumasa Koyanagi of the Graduate School of Science revealed that the pineal organ of bony fish detects colors using ...

The tough part is that fish cannot be compared to other species, she said, like mammals or birds. "That has a lot to do with their anatomy and physiology and the way that their brains and their ...