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For decades a cluster of fossilised bones had drawn little attention as they sat on display in the corner of an Aussie museum ...

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Researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) are helping uncover new ...

The Yukon is lagging behind other jurisdictions when it comes to safeguarding vulnerable species, according to a new national ...

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This rare, in-the-wild experiment shows the importance of high genetic variation and preserving diverse habitats so species can develop ... it’s been labeled the “most misidentified creature in the ...

Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition,” by evolutionary biologists Peter Grant and Rosemary Grant is the ...

The Newcells aProximateTM near-physiological kidney transporter model provides cross-species comparison of drug handling.

Scientists found a “crocodile”-like creature with orange fingertips at a mountain farm in Vietnam and discovered a new species. Photo from Son Xuan Le via Poyarkov, Nguyen, Le, Le, Arkhipov ...

Microbes profoundly impact evolution, shaping traits alongside genes. Holobiont biology highlights how hosts and microbes ...