Shell of New Species of Land Snail Coils Its Own Way
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One snailâs shell is more like a rocket engine than a natural formation.
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New procedure lets adult mouse cells mimic stem cells, bringing hope to anticloning activists.
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A single gene lets a flatworm know if it should regrow a head or a tail, based on where the wound is.
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The discovery of the multicolored species, named Bugun Liocichla, is the first in the country in more than 50 years.
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Scientists have discovered a fish that imitates the extraterrestrial beast of the âAlienâ series: it possesses a second set of jaws.
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NEW YORK - A new fossil discovery from China sh
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U.S. scientists have found traces of limbs in the development of primitive ray-finned fishes.  That discovery contradicts the belief that tetrapods -- land-living vertebrates -- have been evolutionary innovations unique to that group.
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Gene Simmons, eat your heart out. A newfound bat's tongue can stretch to one and a half times the length of its body, and now scientists think they know why.
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Tiny single-celled organisms, many of them previously unknown, have been discovered beneath nearly seven miles of water in the deepest part of the ocean.
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Every feature of a butterfly or moth has been shaped over millions of years of evolution for specific purposes.
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The fossil of a sea reptile with a neck twice as long as its body is solving the mystery of how some ancient reptiles used their long appendages.
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A group of researchers has re-created with remarkable accuracy part of the genome of the common ancestor of all placental mammals, a small shrew-like creature that prowled the forests of what is now Asia more than 80 million years ago.
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Blog: The species was changed. But it's controversial.
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A rapid technique for isolating DNA in hair provides a new route to study the genetics of extinct creatures.
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For your inner entomologist: Insects that appear plucked from a future in which artificial intelligence has triumphed over the natural world.
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The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, European scientists have built a robot with a primitive electric nervous system that they say mimics that change in motion.
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The giant  palm salamander of Central America shoots out  its tongue with more instantaneous power than any known muscle in the animal  kingdom, a new study finds.