A computer model shows that a starfish-like animal can coordinate rhythmic motion based on body structure without the brain telling them to do so. This provides insights useful for physiology and ...

A new study describes the formation of the body axis in the immortal freshwater polyp Hydra. This is controlled by the so-called hippo signaling pathway, a molecular biological process that, among ...

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 ...

All of the nearly 16,000 species of modern ants share a common extinct ancestor, and a new analysis suggests modern ants once shared the planet with their ancient ant relatives — and that their ...

Scientists have found a peculiar structure that hunters and gatherers have built using 60 mammoths that have dated back in the Ice Age. Currently, no one knows why. Researchers have discovered and ...

In 2018, a research expedition in Peru’s Río Abiseo National Park stumbled upon an animal no scientist had recorded before.

Robert Barton has received funding from the BBSRC and Leverhulme Trust. Joanna Baker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...