New research shows that birds investing more energy in reproduction age faster and live shorter lives than those investing less.

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...

Naked mole rats keep kingdoms underground. One queen bears all the children, while others maintain complex subterranean ...

In a new study, appearing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, scientists selectively bred Japanese ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

When their queen dies, naked mole rat females usually wage bloody battles of succession. But peace may be possible, a new ...

Each spring our region is visited by flocks of sandhill cranes. Their arrival is heralded by the sounds of these birds’ ...

Not all birds of prey hunt from the sky. This bird reveals how an extreme environment is all it takes to reshape anatomy, ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

Most oncologists say they would prescribe hormone therapy to cervical cancer patients who experience early menopause from radiation treatment, but barriers are keeping many from doing so in practice, ...

Predators tend to target young animals because they are easy prey. If young are born asynchronously, predators can eat a ...