Two studies published in the latest issue of Science have revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

Three studies of the brain regions responsible for processing sensory information show that their neurons are and communicate ...

Two studies published in the latest issue of Science, led by Dr. Fernando García-Moreno, Ikerbasque researcher at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience and the University of the Basque Country ...

The pallium is the brain region where the neocortex forms in mammals, the part responsible for cognitive and complex ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

Two fossils suggest that birds were thriving and diversifying in China as the Jurassic Period closed, new research reveals.

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The Nicobar Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, home to unique species found nowhere else. Long isolated, these islands have ...

President Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order to halt funding of risky viral gain-of-function research—lab ...

A New Jersey man whose wife was killed in a horrific hippopotamus attack last year during a safari in Africa is suing the U.S ...