Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans.

Open wide! The gaping gob of a pelican eel can expand into a voluminous sac for trapping elusive prey in the dark ocean depths.

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

A new fossil and DNA analysis traces how dozens of sloth species responded to climate shifts and humans. Just two small tree-dwelling sloths remain today.

Somatic hypermutation (SHM) of immunoglobulin variable (V) regions modulates antibody-antigen affinity is initiated by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA).

Where there is water, there is life, they say, and Iowa — a state in the Midwestern region of the United States — has two ...

Scientists have uncovered the genetic underpinnings of one of the ocean's most bizarre animals: a branching marine worm named ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A lost snake that turned into a local celebrity, named Sir Hiss-a-Lot, is on his way to a new home.

Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. But a recent discovery shows these reptiles are no strangers to the region -- ...

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