Scientists stress out lab mice, a lot. Inducing chronic stress and anxiety in these furry critters is how scientists explore ...

People around the world have been enchanted by the baby pygmy hippo whose name means something like "bouncy pork meatball." ...

Meet B. dacnis: a new 7 mm flea toad from Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest, one of the smallest vertebrates ever discovered.

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of ...

Cats are quicker than babies to associate a picture of a word with its corresponding picture, new research shows.

Beneath the arid soil of South Australia, a new piece of the evolutionary puzzle has been unearthed. A 555-million-year-old fossil provides an unprecedented glimpse into the emergence of the ...

Arkansas’s northern boundary was shaped in 1813 when Arkansas County was formed within the Mississippi Territory. When Missouri sought statehood in 1817, it set its southern border at 36°30′ N, which ...

John Watts is the director of the popular Butterfly House and Insectarium at Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park.

taxidermy animals, a live menagerie (with grizzly bears!), and oddities like a five-legged calf and the trigger finger of a ...

Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving "drunk" after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ...

Most writers grow up in homes filled with books. Not this writer. My parents’ book collection, accumulated over their nearly ...