Antivenom can save lives after mamba bites—but new research shows it may unmask a second paralysis, leaving patients with persistent spasms.

Proteins perform their many different functions via physical interactions with other molecules, in particular, small ...

Many people view European cisco roe as a delicacy. A new study has shown that there are different types of European cisco in ...

The genomes of thousands of mosquitoes reveal how the slave trade enabled the spread of the species that transmits dengue and ...

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely ...

Led by paleoanthropologist Professor Chris Stringer from London’s Natural History Museum, the team originally believed the skull to be an earlier ancestor of humanity, named Homo erectus, because it ...

Just like humans may curl into a fetal position for comfort, some animals roll into a ball for survival purposes that go beyond distress. For many species, it serves as a defense mechanism, shielding ...

An assortment of animals active after dark have evolved remarkable night vision, giving them a clear advantage when the sun ...

The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?

On a dawn drive through a savannah reserve in Zambia, a ranger slows the truck and points to a faint trail in the dust. It is ...

Elon Musk believes the collapsing birth rate is humanity's biggest danger. But antinatalists argue having kids is little more than a procreational Ponzi scheme, and the risks are real.