These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their ...

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A severely malnourished dog that was being treated at Angell Animal Medical Center died after suffering critical medical ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

In Sweden, during the construction of the Ostlänken railway at Logsjomossen, a 5,000-year-old dog skeleton was found with a ...

The study explained that even though the Atlantic forest had a diversity of animal and bird species to feed on, over a third ...

In the Arizona desert sits a $200 million experiment designed to replicate Earth and prepare humans for space colonization. Eight people were sealed inside for two years with no outside air, food, or ...

Victoria has just suffered some of its worst bushfires since the Black Summer fires of 2019–20. Over 400,000 hectares are ...

The biology of Antarctic species is very different; warm things up by just a degree or so, and they could emerge into a very ...

Garter snakes can survive being frozen solid for hours. Here’s how evolution, biochemistry and behavior have allowed them to ...

What you won’t see, though, are green ones. The reason for this is both a fault in the stars and in ourselves: we don’t see ...

Rayleigh, a market town with more than 1,000 years of history, sits between Chelmsford and Southend and is known for its ...