Biologists have long puzzled over how organs develop into their final shapes, and the nearly transparent bodies of young sea ...

Teeth from the Rising Star cave system are offering an unusual window into Homo naledi, one of the oddest branches on the human family tree. A new study suggests that every known skeleton of the ...

In humans, that supply dwindles until menopause, when it goes bankrupt. Over the past two decades, scientists have identified ...

Among the many behaviours that have made penguins famous far beyond the icy regions they inhabit, few are as widely discussed ...

Professional python hunter Amy Siewe recently posted a video on her Facebook page showing her cutting open a snake's egg to see what it looks like.

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

Scientists and ranchers are racing against time to eradicate the New World screwworm, with 15 confirmed cases reported in ...

So you have finally found the partner of your dreams—but no matter how hard you try, no children have come along. Could ...

At least a dozen animals have been found with the flesh-eating maggots. It could take more than a year to eradicate the ...

Human skeletal biologists traditionally provide sex estimations as part of establishing biological profiles (skeletal sex, age-at-death, stature, ancestry/population affinity) for skeletonized remains ...

This short film introduces the topic of reproduction and that babies start from an egg and sperm. This series of short films ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) revealed on Monday, June 8, that three additional cases of New World screwworm have been confirmed in the U.S. The New World screwworm is a fly that lays eggs ...