When wildfires swept through Brazil’s Pantanal wetland in 2020, the flames killed an estimated 17 million vertebrates in a ...

A species of aquatic crustacean named triops cancriformis or tadpole shrimp, known worldwide as ‘living fossil’, has been spotted in Hamoun International Wetland, southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan ...

Mammals aren’t exactly known for their limb-regenerating abilities, but some of them, including humans, have the ability to ...

The ocean contains many organisms whose form defies the expectations we might have for life, but none may be more bizarre ...

Two unrelated groups of nectar eaters, hummingbirds and sunbirds, have evolved different techniques to slurp the sweet liquid ...

Helicoprion, often called the “buzz saw shark,” possessed one of the most unusual feeding adaptations ever seen in ...

Hummingbirds and their Asian and African counterparts, sunbirds, feed by sticking their tongues and beak tips into pools of ...

Two unrelated groups of nectar eaters, hummingbirds and sunbirds, evolved different techniques to slurp the sweet liquid from ...

Amphibians are a major clade of tetrapod vertebrates (class Amphibia) encompassing anurans (frogs and toads), caudates (salamanders and newts), and gymnophionans (caecilians). They are characterized ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

The Nature Record is the first national scientific assessment of the state of U.S. lands, rivers, coasts, and oceans, and ...