In "Hidden Creatures," a young entomologist discovers the miraculous world of parasites when cocoons sprout from a ...

Slow-moving, wide-eyed tourists from major cities or other states who flock to Vermont in the fall for the primary purpose of taking in the scenery, blocking traffic to take Instagram-ready photos, ...

Bromeliads are one of the great evolutionary success stories of the neotropics, the tropical ecosystems of the Americas. The ...

Within every muscle of every living species with a backbone, a protein called myosin tugs on a partner protein to generate a ...

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious reasons), shared the island of Flores with Komodo dragons, pygmy elephants, ...

A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...

According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go ...