Living organisms quietly emit light. This glow is real, measurable, and tied to life itself. Researchers at the University of ...

The life cycle of mammals (including humans), birds and some other organisms is relatively simple. An individual is born or hatched, feeds and grows up, often disperses to a new living space, ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Editor's Note: This article was first published at ScienceNordic. Scientists are increasingly interested in the prospect of solving a range of fundamental problems facing our civilisation by designing ...

We often say that the light leaves a person’s eyes when they die. But it turns out all living organisms, including humans, emit a literal glow that extinguishes after death, according to a new study.

Animals are familiar to us all, not only because we encounter them daily, but also because humans themselves are animals with fascinating truths. We share the planet with an incredible diversity of ...

Alice Clement receives funding from the Australian Research Council. We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of “living fossils” ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers baking bread, truck drivers driving that bread to market and grocers selling ...

Like all other living organisms, animals face the challenge of fending off enemies. Using chemical weaponry can be an effective strategy to stay alive. Instead of taking over this task themselves, ...