A 3.3-metre oarfish — an elusive deepsea creature shaped like an eel — washed up earlier this month in California. Also known ...

Throughout human history, humans have looked toward nature for signs of an impending disaster. Their observations typically stemmed from a mixture of real recognizable patterns in nature and cultural ...

Spatial learning in teleost fish requires an intact telencephalon, a brain region that contains putative analogs to the mammalian basal ganglia and limbic system (e.g. hippocampus). However, cells ...

Paleontologists unveiled on Wednesday the fossil of a young marine crocodile dating back 10 to 12 million years that was ...

Scans of fossilized feces have revealed what the early members of this iconic species ate to help them take over the world.

During the embryonic development of mice, for example, the Shh-signaling pathway controls the number and development of the fingers, among other things. The research findings thus provide additional ...

A study of fossilized feces and vomit attempts to piece together why dinosaurs were so evolutionarily successful.

However, questions remain about the rules and parameters that help set up that type of shifting system. One possibility comes ...

A study using zebrafish reveals how brainstem neural networks guide eye movement, offering a new model that mimics these ...

An in-depth investigation is needed into taxpayer dollars spent on bizarre research of animals, fish and insects, in a failed ...

Working with week-old zebrafish larva, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and colleagues decoded how the connections ...