Learn why sardines vanished, leaving tens of thousands of African penguins starving during their annual moult along South Africa’s coast.

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One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

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At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the ...

Satellites confirm Calanus finmarchicus, crucial for North Atlantic right whales, sustaining their survival amid dwindling ...

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Researchers retrieved reef monitoring devices that had been placed in deep coral reefs in Guam. The devices were placed up to 330 feet below the surface.

“Like we say, exercise at least three to five days a week,” Miller said. “Belly laugh at least two to five days a week.” Although luminaries from the ancient Greeks to Freud have opined on the roots ...