Elephant trunks may be one of the most sensitive body parts in the animal kingdom. Michael Brecht at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin and his colleagues dissected the ...

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Some warm-blooded animals are shapeshifting and getting larger beaks, legs and ears to better regulate their body temperatures as the planet gets hotter, according to a new review of existing research ...

Legend has it that physicist Ernest Rutherford once dismissed all sciences other than physics as mere “stamp collecting.” (Whether he actually said it is a matter of some debate.) But we now live in ...

In all of the worlds continents there are plenty of animals with strange adaptations. These adaptations can help the animals hunt their prey, escape predators, and travel around their natural ...

When danger strikes, humans usually have two choices — run or fight. But in the wild, some animals have figured out a third, much stranger option: drop part of their own body to survive. It’s called ...

With just hundreds left in the wild, new research reveals how poachers are killing them and shipping their bones to China. Amur tigers, sometimes called Siberian tigers, live mostly in Russia’s Far ...

In Lila Guterman’s article “Hope Grows for Replacing Lost Limbs and Outworn Organs” (January 31), Ronald D.G. McKay is quoted as saying that for regeneration biology to contribute to medicine, “we ...

A severed ant head. A fly wing. A beetle abdomen. These body parts ripped from devoured insects festoon a newfound caterpillar’s protective coat. Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar species ...

Authorities Friday removed a litany of exotic pets from the Northeast Philadelphia home of a man whose dismembered body was found stuffed in a trash bag inside a U-Haul truck the day prior. Members of ...