Did you know that more than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals? Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world's most dangerous viruses, ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world's scientific community has been racing to decipher this "book" written in an alphabet of four letters.

John Long, Flinders University; Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki, Uppsala University, and Per Ahlberg, Uppsala University ...

Until now, most research has used either generalized cell samples or organoids made from just one type of tropical fruit bat, and only from a single organ. But a breakthrough has arrived: a research ...

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On the "Aqua Mare" in the Galápagos, close encounters with the resident wildlife come with standard-setting luxury.

Building Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s world in ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ took years and thousands of Colombians to recreate ...

Two independent studies have identified the same genetic mutation on the X chromosome as being responsible for the reddish ...

Researchers describe cases of chimps tending to others’ wounds, as well as a chimp that freed another from a snare ...

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles, ...