Human and avian visitors to the Santa Cruz Harbor Jetty pause for a moment along the “jacks” near the Walton Lighthouse this ...

A new global study reveals that nearly one in four freshwater animal species is at high risk of extinction, scientists warn.

Four-limbed vertebrates, known as tetrapods, have two enlarged regions in their spinal cords. Meanwhile, it was long thought that fish had no enlarged areas in their spinal cords due to the absence of ...

Kochi: Residents, who left their homes in Puthenthode-Cheriyakadavu stretch of Chellanam panchayat in June 2024 due to heavy ...

"Rather than building a new regulatory system for the digits, nature has repurposed an existing mechanism, initially active in the cloaca." The question of how tetrapods, or four-limbed animals, ...

Oct. 16, 2025 — Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became. Scientists studying ancient teeth found that early humans, great ...

Black-capped chickadees are probably the first birds most children recognize. They are small, quick, somewhat friendly and ...

Natural selection uses duplicated genes as raw material for functional innovation, co-opting their existing features to new functions. Understanding genetic innovation requires two questions to be ...

The program also highlighted the basic elements of floral design. Beard-Poynter demonstrated ways to make unique centerpieces ...

Oct. 7, 2025 — Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A ...

Regulars, local activists and tourism experts say the region has much more to offer if only there was a bigger vision and a better plan ...