On June 16, a female wallaby named Mac escaped Grace and Glory Animals, an animal education zoo in Oswego, New York. Therein ...

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For the first time, scientists have 3-D printed objects within living cells, including a 10-micrometer long elephant and tiny “barcodes” that could help track individual cells. Remarkably, many of the ...

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Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Fish make hanging motionless in the water column look effortless, and scientists had long assumed hovering was a type of rest ...

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While all of these animals have spines or quills, they are very different. Echidnas are monotremes, and their closest relative is the platypus, another egg-laying mammal.

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