Newly analyzed jawbones from 380-million-year-old lungfish are shedding light on the feeding behaviors of our earliest ...

Greenland sharks live for centuries with slow heartbeats and metabolism. Scientists study their longevity secrets.

A team of researchers in France are building on fundamental experimental research undertaken in the Ukrainian Chornobyl ...

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...

Few predators swallow their prey whole. Even fewer can digest their meals with bones and all. But for some reptiles like the ...

The portrayal of uncaring scientists without any thought for the animals being used in their research is far from the truth.

Both research teams recovered the ancient proteins from tooth enamel, the hardest substance in vertebrates’ bodies, in ...

In 2022, research shed light on the process. The lifespan and reproduction of the invertebrate are controlled by optic glands ...

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The 209-million-year-old fossil offers clues to the evolution of the reptiles, which have more than 150 named species ...

A newly discovered cell helps pythons digest entire skeletons—and might be present in other bone-eating predators, too.