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The octopus is one of the most extreme animals on Earth. Its biology looks more like science fiction than natural evolution.

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THE secrets of the woolly rhino’s demise has finally been revealed after stunned scientists found DNA in a place they weren’t ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

From bold foxes to gregarious birds, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as crucial to conservation efforts.

Chemist Lee Cronin challenges AI doom and explains assembly theory, showing how complexity signals life, so you can judge ...

Bar-Ilan University research shows even jellyfish and sea anemones repair DNA during repose, underscoring the fact that a ...

And I’m really, really scared — by the needlessness and senselessness of her killing; by the responses of President Trump and ...

If vitamin C stops cancer in its tracks, and being deficient in it can cause scurvy — the disease long associated with ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...