He is excited to apply the lessons learned from his first term to further the department's potential as a national leader for ...

An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...

Elephants are highly intelligent, social creatures capable of peeling bananas, burying and mourning their dead, solving problems and greeting their companions. Now, scientists have added another skill ...

A bobcat, with its characteristic reddish fur and black markings, trots across a snow-covered field in central Oregon, in the ...

A study described the three-dimensional architecture of turtle genomes, which fold in a configuration unlike any other animal observed so far.

A first-of-its-kind achievement has implanted photosynthesizing cells in animal cells to make “planimals.” This feat could be ...

A new glowing nudibranch species is the first known to swim through the ocean’s midnight zone and has unique adaptations for ...

Footage from camera traps in the undergrowth showed small mammals, such as rodents and armadillos, seemed to avoid predators ...

Near a waterfall in Thailand, a pregnant creature with two “externally visible” eggs perched on a rock. Its “large” ...

Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the ...