A research trip to a biodiversity hotspot in the Gulf of Maine underscores the importance of continued monitoring of marine ecosystems.

Scholars and schoolchildren alike have generally classified animals by the foods they eat: carnivores eat meat; browsers ...

Neil Shubin has been nominated to serve as the next president of the National Academy of Sciences, an organization that ...

New research into the anatomy of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

Most organisms fit comfortably into standard definitions of “life,” i.e., cells that grow, reproduce independently, and ...

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a roundworm used extensively in biological research, opening a new pathway ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to cold and other extremes.

Zebrafish have the rare ability to regenerate their heart muscle after major damage, unlike humans. Researchers have now ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Wenjuan Huang, assistant professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology But cover crops tend to produce a modest though highly variable increase in soil carbon, prior research has shown. In ...

The Council of the National Academy of Sciences has approved the nomination of Neil H. Shubin, Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and associate dean of ...