Like the males of many animal species, male Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies, a commonly studied lab animal, are aggressive toward one another and even fight when competing for resources such as ...

While they may look like innocent, wide-eyed plush toys on social media, slow lorises hide a far more violent reality. New ...

Giant isopods are deep-sea crustaceans built to survive in cold, dark environments under extreme pressure. Their armored ...

Not all fish play by the same reproductive rules. Evolutionary biology reveals how deception became a successful mating ...

Non-animal testing methods could save drugmakers time and money, officials say ...

Some fish, it turns out, are morning people. They swim hard during daylight, sleep mostly at night, and tend to live longer.

For decades, birdsong research focused almost exclusively on males. In many species, however, females also sing. Now a study by researchers from the University of Vienna and Anglia Ruskin University ...

Alfred University on Monday, March 30 will welcome Melina Packer, assistant professor of race, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, for the thirty-first Elizabeth ...

An entertaining view of what unpopular creatures including raccoons, rats, coyotes, gulls, snakes, and other intruders teach ...

We've uploaded a fruit fly. We took the @FlyWireNews connectome of the fruit fly brain, applied a simple neuron model ( @Philip_Shiu Nature 2024) and used it to control a MuJoCo physics-simulated body ...

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to be ...

Cell- and animal-based models of bone formation reveal novel mechanisms involved in the cartilage-to-bone phenotype ...