For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sense temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...

Living a solitary life is one thing that may help them. R-e-s-p-e-c-t In addition to Magilani, who likely died in 2011, Bhalla has collared two other female lions, Nadala and Naramat.

Once upon a time, it was thought by many, most, and maybe all of us humanoids that the sea was big enough to swallow and ...

These unique monkeys live in large, social groups of up to 500 members and inhabit the canopy layer of the rainforest. They are small animals at only 10 to 14 inches long, with a 14 to 17-inch ...

If the photic zone is reducing by around 50 m in large swathes of the ocean, animals that need light will be forced closer to the surface where they will have to compete for food and the other ...

Today's Climate Animals—Living and Dead—Can Help Track Humanity’s Toxic Legacy Natural history museum collections can help backfill environmental pollution data, a new study argues.

Olms are cute and small animals that are surprisingly resilient. Research has found that they can live up to 10 years without food. They’ve also been found to live to at least 58 years old. This ...

Tube worms can’t move, live in total darkness, and have no way to eat, but they manage to survive anyway. ©NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Galapagos Rift Expedition 2011, Public Domain, via Wikimedia ...