In the past, African giant pouched rats have learned to detect explosives and the tuberculosis-causing pathogen. Now, a team of...
An international team of paleobiologists have found that the sinuses of ocean-dwelling relatives of modern-day crocodiles prevented them from evolving...
Flea toads, as some species in the genus Brachycephalus are known, are less than 1 cm long in adulthood. Their...
Sorghum, often relegated to animal feed in developed countries, boasts significant nutritional potential that remains largely untapped for human consumption....
Malaria kills over 600,000 people a year, and as the climate warms, the potential range of the disease is growing....
Red deer may become less sociable as they grow old to reduce the risk of picking up diseases, while older...
A new study by researchers at the UT sheds light on historical changes in the amount of water humanity consumes...
For the first time, scientists have used data from weather radar not to track storms, but to count birds as...
New research from the University of Oxford has revealed that species that are more social live longer and produce offspring...
New Zealand’s native stoneflies have changed color in response to human-driven environmental changes, new research shows. Just published in the...
Apomixis is a form of asexual reproduction that allows hybrid rice to propagate by seeds. Recently, a collaborative research team...
Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as...