These animals prove you don't need human hands to create something remarkable. The natural world is full of amazing creatures that build incredible structures. From tiny insects to large mammals, ...

Animals display an extraordinary array of structural adaptations that are intimately linked to their functional capacities. From the microscopic organisation of tissues and cells to the macroscopic ...

NEW ORLEANS, March 17, 2024 — Unique adaptations allow wild animals to survive temperature extremes that would quickly kill an unprotected human. For example, certain animals can withstand bitterly ...

The Cyclostomata is an ancient group of aquatic colonial suspension-feeders from the phylum Bryozoa. The fact that they have unique placentae has been discovered by researchers at St Petersburg ...

The study of altitudinal gradients has made enduring contributions to the theoretical and empirical bases of modern biology. Unfortunately, the persistence of these systems and the species that ...

Bacterial biofilms contain a level of structural organisation that we thought was unique to plants and animals. Biofilms, slimy clumps of microorganisms like bacteria and fungi, were long thought to ...

The artificial intelligence group DeepMind has unraveled the structures of nearly every protein known to science. Researchers achieved the feat using the program AlphaFold, which DeepMind first ...

A group of researchers developed a quadruped robot platform that can reproduce the neuromuscular dynamics of animals, discovering that a steady gait and experimental behaviors of walking cats emerged ...

Wildlife crossings cut down on roadkill. But are they really a boon for conservation? In the mid-2000s, toads were meeting a gruesome end near Ede, an old, leafy town in the middle of the Netherlands.