Male spotted ratfish have true teeth on a forehead appendage used for mating. Across vertebrates, teeth share many defining ...

Scientists discovered true teeth growing on the head of the spotted ratfish, a distant shark relative. The toothed structure, called a tenaculum, helps males hold onto females during mating. Genetic ...

This year, Littleford-Colquhoun joined researchers from Yellowstone National Park and Brown’s Genomic Opportunities Lab on a ...

The Maroon spoke with Shubin about how teaching at UChicago has prepared him to prioritize science communication for all ...

Wiemann combines tools from chemistry, biology, and geology to explore ecological and evolutionary questions about life on ...

The research is opening new frontiers in pest control and evolutionary biology. An international group of scientists has uncovered a strange tubular structure within Profftella, a bacterium that lives ...

AMES, Iowa – In their long strings of nucleotides, DNA molecules hold massive troves of genetic data providing instructions for how living organisms should function – the blueprint of life. How the ...

A heretofore unknown molecular mechanism helps plants save water in extreme drought and intense sunlight. A research team at ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Dr. Andrew Gentry was a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham for a decade. He’s in his third year at the Alabama School of Math and Science. Here is what he’s ...