While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

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Mar. 13, 2025 — Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant's teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. Geologists show how ... Social Media Can Help Track ...

Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life in other ways. If it is morally wrong to cause animals to suffer then experimenting on animals produces ...

Rational argument about the right and wrong way to treat animals is made more difficult by the deep love that many of us feel for animals. For philosophers it raises fundamental questions about ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

Now that we know about the typical size of the plants, let’s look at the biggest. Unlike other times when we’ve measured the largest animals and plants, we’re choosing the winner based on weight only.