Browsing: biology

On July 14, internet history was made. After capturing video of a cryptid-like raccoon with a hunched spine and stumpy…

One of the most crucial parts of pulling off an unprecedented international plane ride for four beluga whales is making…

The idea that cancer could behave like a contagious disease may seem absurd; in humans, cancer cannot be transmitted from…

Mushroom hunting is cool and fun, but you know what’s not cool and fun? Having slugs or other mushroom hunters…

Beneath the Earth’s surface lies an extraordinary underground fungal network of almost unimaginable scale. An international team of researchers has,…

The US government is partnering with Texas-based de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences to build a national repository of genetic material from…

An encounter with a great white shark is undoubtedly a “thrilling” experience, considered especially rare in the waters of the…

The CEOs of several major artificial intelligence companies are urging members of Congress to adopt new laws that would make…

A morning walk through East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York uncovered an immense colony of some 5.5 million subterranean…

A tiny blue octopus that lives in the deep sea off the coast of the Galápagos Islands is so small…

This species can reach 30 centimeters in diameter and live between 1,600 and 4,000 meters deep. Its biology baffles specialists…

Cocaine pollution can affect the behavior of fish—altering, for example, the way Atlantic salmon move through their environment, prompting them…

As the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal government, a biotech startup has a…

Breakout Ventures has closed a $114 million Fund III to back AI-focused early-stage startups working in scientific fields such as…

The very existence of left-handedness seems to defy Darwin. According to the theory of evolution by natural selection (in very…

Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using…