For decades, this question has bewildered biologists. Now, by studying Placozoa, scientists at Stanford University have ...

If you've ever seen a roast come with those neat little paper hats on top, you may be wondering, well — just what the heck ...

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Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...

The death of a well-known wild animal is an odd kind of news. It is intimate, because so many people feel they have met the ...

Some of nature’s most mesmerizing works of art might just be hanging in your backyard. The artist is an orb weaver spider.

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