Pterosaurs combined flight, size, and physical strength in ways rarely seen in the animal kingdom. This video compares their ...

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Every year, gray whales embark on one of nature’s most epic migration journeys. Here’s what we know about it, according to ...

Two wombs, a forked penis, and giving birth through the nose. These are just a few of the bizarre stories circulating about ...

While the jellyfish and sea anemone are awake, DNA damage accumulates in their nerve cells and when they doze, that damage is ...

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows ...

Neural tissue normally dies quickly without oxygen. Yet bird retinas—among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal ...

If you lose your sight, you make up for it with other senses. If one arm is amputated, you learn to do twice as many things ...

A joint study by Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa set out to solve a scientific mystery: how a soft coral is ...

Turns out jellyfish and sea anemones – among the ancient creatures with a nervous system instead of a brain – have a very similar sleeping routine to our own. A new study published in Nature ...

A pet cow in Austria named Veronika picks up sticks with her mouth and uses them to scratch herself—which a team at ...

Somewhere between life and death is the Alaskan Tree Frog. Discover how this amphibian freezes and lives to tell the tale.