Artist's impression of how Victorian palaeontologists thought the Megalosaurus looked (R) is compared with how we now understand it to have looked (L).
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
Pioneering technology has shed fresh light on the world's first scientifically-described dinosaur fossil...
Many frogs look like a water balloon with legs, but don't be fooled. Beneath slick skin, some species sport spines, spikes and other skeletal secrets.
While most frogs share a simple skull shape with a smooth surface, others have evolved...
Snapping turtle hatchling. Credit: Turk Rhen
The sex of many reptile species is set by temperature. New research reported in the journal Genetics identifies the first gene associated with temperature-dependent sex determination in any reptile. Variation at this gene in...
Pumas are not the loners they were once thought to be.
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Pumas, long known as solitary carnivores, are more social than previously thought, according to a new Panthera study published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances....
Just about everybody loves peanut butter. We put it on sandwiches and in candy, we use it to trick our dogs into taking their heartworm pills, and, when we have to, we bait mouse traps with it. But, as...
In a surprising evolutionary twist, a new study suggests that while one rattlesnake may routinely feast on lizard meat, its seemingly identical neighbor snake might strike and strike and never kill its would-be reptilian prey.
The first-of-its-kind research reveals significant...
Reinhard used computational modeling to track oceanic dissolved oxygen concentrations globally.Credit: Chris Reinhard / Georgia Tech
A couple of times in four billion years, evolution has slowed to a crawl. And an eon or so has passed before more complex...
The backbone is the Swiss Army Knife of mammal locomotion. It can function in all sorts of ways that allows living mammals to have remarkable diversity in their movements. They can run, swim, climb and fly all due, in...
There are over 20,000 species of bee, but accurate data about how these species are spread across the globe are sparse. However, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on November 19 have created a map of bee diversity by combining...
Prickly pear trees and the brown seaweed, commonly known as Peacocks tail, are a common sight in the Mediterranean.Credit: Stephanie Ghio
The Mediterranean is a haven for lovers of crystal-clear seas and sun-kissed landscapes. Now, thanks to the work of...
The world's most widely used weed killer may also be indirectly killing bees. New research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that honey bees exposed to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, lose some of the beneficial...
