If you ever tried cramming all your learning in one night before the exam, you know it doesn't usually work. Surprisingly, ...

All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one of their cells. Yet the amount of DNA in ...

The greater short-horned lizard boasts an impressive arsenal of defense mechanisms—more impressive than the myths they inspire.

A couple left the city life to raise donkeys. Now they're starting a donkey-themed restaurant — where the donkeys will visit.

Small animal evacuation center: Ventura County Animal Services ... it's also where they can get the latest information on the fire. The fast-moving Mountain Fire moved through Camarillo on Wednesday ...

Imagine a robot that can detect scents in the air and track down their sources as efficiently as a dog or a mouse. If realised, it could detect small wildfires in dense forests, find people buried in ...

Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a ...

Meet B. dacnis: a new 7 mm flea toad from Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest, one of the smallest vertebrates ever discovered.

At less than 3mm long, you may not think Dunatothrips aneurae seem like much. And—as I have shown in a new study published in ...

The best things about rebreathers are that they let you stay underwater for hours, and they don’t release bubbles like ...