Ducks with corkscrew penises, fish changing sex – what do we really know about sex and reproduction on Earth? Less than we ...

Even back then, scientists were puzzled. Many prediction models suggested this fish shouldn’t survive beyond roughly 10,000 years. Yet here it is, still going strong far past that window. Wes Warren ...

For most animals, survival is a game of chance. Sexual reproduction mixes DNA, keeping the gene pool diverse and giving ...

Parasites are a major global health problem, underlying many human diseases worldwide. For example, Plasmodium falciparum, ...

Researchers from The University of Osaka have identified a gene key for parasite egress, providing a novel target for ...

Scientists have discovered a plant that tricks birds with fake berries. The vine Dioscorea melanophyma mimics real fruit, ...

Scientists in Siberia have revived a bdelloid rotifer, a microscopic animal, that had been frozen in permafrost for 24,000 ...

A mouse cloning experiment that ran for two decades and spanned 58 generations of serial recloning has reached a dead end, ...

AEGIS: Individual-based modeling of life history evolution. Bagic M, Šajina A, Bradshaw WJ, Valenzano DR. PLoS Comput Biol. 2026, 22 (3), e1014109. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014109.

New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.

Let’s say something bad happens — a crash, a fall, a stroke, an overdose. Your brain absorbs a violent shock or a period ...