The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who tips off authorities to animal abuse in Los Angeles that leads prosecution under a federal law — as the issue plagues the city’s notoriously derelict ...

At first glance, it looks exactly like a seahorse. It has the same horse-shaped head tilted down from the body, the same ...

Wombat droppings look manufactured, with flat faces and edges that can stack like small blocks. No mold or square opening is ...

As described in a new study in the Journal of Lost Species, it is Australyichthys aegis, a newly described species from deep reefs off southern Australia. Researchers have named it the helmethead sea ...

The Navy agreed to pay them fully for lost grazing land. But the disagreement over fair compensation could shutter their ...

Lobsters have long reigned as king among New Hampshire’s shelled sea creatures, but the chances of a coup are growing — and climate change is tipping the scales. Indeed, said biologist Christopher ...

How failure, curiosity and 800 pounds of butter brought an Iowa State Fair tradition to one of America's most prestigious ...

Everything about the blue whale strains ordinary comparison. It is the largest animal known to have ever lived, bigger than any dinosaur, and the organs inside it scale up to match. Its heart has ...

Junk food brain damage may be permanent: a USC study published in Nature Communications maps the precise gut-brain circuit that writes memories in the hippocampus, finds childhood Western diet blunts ...

Researchers created a cell village culture system and Townlet algorithm to map genetic drivers of brain cell growth, 16p11.2 ...

This valuable study describes a simple and robust approach for estimating information-limiting noise by splitting neural populations and comparing estimator values. The authors report more accurate ...

Lobsters have long been the kings of the NH shores, but climate change has introduced some competition: crab species from further south.