It is one of the tropes of guitar effects pedal culture that designers look to the animal kingdom when naming their fuzz ...

Tesoro’s caecilian, a “large,” limbless amphibian, was found in the forests of Ecuador. Known for its “unique” coloring and ...

Now they’ve won and thinking machines have been outlawed. But as with anything that's outlawed, can it ever fully be ...

The Nucleus, a student-run newspaper dedicated to providing easy-to-read scientific articles, released its third volume on Nov. 8. This volume was the first to feature a full cohort of writers, ...

Ladybugs are a distinctive, brightly colored family of small oval beetles, the Coccinellidae (from coccineus, “scarlet”), ...

Jon Sperling secretly spread a non-native species across the Northeast. “It’s insane what this guy was doing,” a biologist ...

How shows like The Last of Us and Station Eleven reveal more unsettling truths about our nature than we care to admit.

A Villanova University biologist is studying how geckos stick to surfaces in an effort to replicate this mechanism for new medical adhesives ...

“These are obviously relatively small lizards, so it would take quite a lot to pull this off for a human.” ...

If you thought the resemblance between any primate and humans is way too much to comprehend ... this embryo looks like it could be almost any animal. This is what a lizard looks like before it is ...

[Related: Chimp conversations can take on human-like chaos.] To assess how this effect manifests in chimps, researchers at Japan’s Kyoto University relied on their study facility’s ...