A team of researchers has uncovered a new biological editing system that could potentially be even more precise than CRISPR gene editing. It’s based on a protein called Fanzor, and this new finding is the first programmable RNA-guided system discovered ...

For centuries, a tale of the honeyguide bird and honey badger working together in some African countries to get into bees’ nests to get to their delicious honey and share the spoils has intrigued naturalists.  Finding real evidence of this ...

“No one can mistake a frog for any other vertebrate,” writes herpetologist C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. in his newly published edition of Frogs of the United States and Canada. The jumpy amphibians share the “same basic body plan,” he notes: big ...

One of the most persistent myths that reinforces traditional gender roles and binaries is the idea that men are best slated to work outside the home due to their nature as hunters, while women are more suited to domestic life ...

If you step out of a cool building into a hot and sunny day, you’ll probably notice that your skin starts to flush. Beads of sweat form as the heat settles on your body. These reactions, as uncomfortable as they ...

While humans and dinosaurs only co-existed in cartoons like The Flintstones, some of our very early ancestors potentially shared a brief moment with the likes of the Titanosaurs and the iconic Triceratops. These distant relatives also survived the catastrophic extinction ...

Even Australia’s most fearsome predators aren’t all safe from the stinging bites of mosquitoes—and the threat of West Nile virus (WNV) that comes with it. Saltwater crocodiles (or salties) can develop skin lesions called pix as a result of a ...

With their distinctive red fur and long, powerful arms, orangutans are hard to miss. It also might be hard to miss the sounds they make as they swing through the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia. A study published June 27 ...

Most fish are cold-blooded, which means that they rely on the temperature outside of their body to regulate their internal temperatures However, some sharks are surprisingly warm-blooded, storing the heat that is generated by their muscles the way many mammals ...

With their soft and spongy tissue, internal organs are rare in the fossil record. But the paleontologists who unearthed the remains of a 50 million year-old katydid hit a bit of a fossil jackpot. Parts of the digestive tract, muscles, ...