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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Animals cover astonishing distances when they are looking for food. While caribou, reindeer and wolves clock…

The mammalian nose is a work of evolutionary art. Its millions of nerve cells, each tailored with just one of…

Dr James Rule (L) and Dr Erich Fitzgerald (R) with the Murray River whale fossil at Melbourne Museum. Credit: Eugene…

Insect decline is being driven by losses among the locally more common species, according to a new study published in…

Enrollment in arthropods is an important defensive strategy that provides protection against predation. A—C, Enrolled Ceraurus from the Walcott-Rust Quarry.…

Like a celestial beacon, distant quasars make the brightest light in the universe. They emit more light than our entire…

Turquet’s octopus (Pareledone turqueti) lives on the seafloor around Antarctica. Credit: Dave Barnes/British Antarctic Survey If we want to understand…

The North Sea seafloor is dotted with thousands of crater-like depressions in the sediment known as pockmarks. There are probably…

The colored circle represents the hologram, out of which the knotted optical vortex emerges. Credit: University of Bristol A quarter…

An archaeological find in the Huescan Pyrenees allowed researchers to identify for the first time livestock management strategies and feeding…