A recent University of Arizona study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the ...

New research is shedding light on mysterious sleep mechanisms in an unexpected source: the Australian dragon lizard.

This is a classic example of sexual selection using color signaling. Conspicuous colors are also displayed by toxic animal ...

My work gathers inspiration from a variety of unconventional model organisms, and they have a key role in bio-inspired design ...

Live food is essential for most reptiles and other exotic animals. Insects such as crickets and mealworms provide crucial ...

Sleep is one of the most mysterious, yet ubiquitous components of our biology. It has been described in all major groups of animals, including worms, jellyfish, insects or cephalopods, and in all ...

For all its pervasiveness and the efforts to study it, cancer is still somewhat of a mystery. Why do some animals get it at a ...

A research group may have unraveled the mystery behind the locomotion of the ancient marine reptile, the plesiosaur, by ...

Brazil’s Atlantic forest has many frogs of the Brachycephalus genus, which are known also as saddleback toads. Their penchant for springing around and leaping distances about 30 times their body ...

Prehistoric flying reptiles lived on a diet of small fish and squid ... from the University of Portsmouth and the Staatliches ...

One of the most striking aspects of the tuatara is its slow, steady pace of life. These reptiles are built for longevity, with some individuals living over 100 years. Their metabolism is incredibly ...