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Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," ...

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England is proposing a unique, new animal welfare plan that protects one animal in particular: the humble lobster. The ...

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New research from Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk on Greenland shark vision – co-authored by University of Basel, Switzerland researchers Walter Salzburger and Lily G. Fogg, who worked on the evolutionary ...

Skowronska-Krawczyk, who gleans insights into the molecular mechanisms of aging by studying processes that control age-related eye diseases, attributes her interest in the visual system of the ...

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.