A groundbreaking idea from a University of Alberta scientist could finally crack the code behind one of the most stubborn ...

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Today, July 1st, is the national day of Canada, the country whose sovereignty is symbolized by the beaver. Happy Canada Day ...

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.

An interesting new study reveals that hibernation might not be a recent adaptation at all, but a deeply ancient one that dates back to a time before dinosaurs ruled the Earth.Researchers studying ...

For decades, the belief that fish don't feel pain shaped fishing practices, seafood production, and research methods. People assumed that because fish don't scream or cry, they couldn't suffer like ...

The speed in which an animal can move depends on a number of internal and external factors, things like physiology, biochemistry, the environment, and the presence of predators and prey. Quite often ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

This long-term focus on specific prey can have powerful ecological consequences. At Cape Shirreff, Antarctica, in the ...

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.