While sexual reproduction is the predominant strategy among animals, some species have evolved the ability to reproduce asexually ...

East Rock seventh graders Leia and Lesly suited up in gloves and eye protection to pierce through the unexpectedly tough skin ...

Along the ground, they noticed a yellow sea creature with dozens of tentacles. It turned out to be a new species. Researchers visited several sites in the western end of the Mediterranean Sea between ...

A Chinese-foreign research team has discovered that soil invertebrates — such as termites, ants, and earthworms — play a ...

An area on the outside of a tree trunk that appears to be stained white or looks wet during summer is likely bacterial ...

The bill has a flexible tip, which can detect a slime trail up to 24 hours after his favorite food, an earthworm, has passed. As he searches for earthworms, he does his own rendition of Michael ...

Anatomy is the field of biology that studies the structure of living things. Anatomy focuses on the composition, structure and location of the parts of organisms tissues, organs and systems ...

In honor of the Year of the Snake, let’s appreciate the strange anatomy and evolution of these slithery reptiles ...

A healthy person can have some minor variations in the diaphragm's anatomy. For example, the left or right side may be slightly higher or lower without affecting physical functions. During pregnancy, ...

The pleura (plural: pleurae) is a two-layered membrane that covers the lung. Between the layers is a small amount of lubricating fluid, known as pleural fluid, which helps cushion the lung and reduce ...

This programme aims to provide students with knowledge and understanding of scientific methods of enquiry and theoretical principles of biological sciences, including, where appropriate, the ...