After nailing that sweet triple gainer into the pool you may have noticed something: being underwater is very peaceful, ...

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

Despite being mammals, these remarkably cancer-resistant animals share a lot in common with cold-blooded species.

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

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

Amphibians were the first vertebrates to crawl up from the water onto land. Even today, amphibians lay their soft-shell eggs ...

A tiny desert fish survives in a sun-scorched cavern on the edge of extinction. Here’s how it’s offering scientists a rare ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba and their collaborators have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the olfactory receptor repertoire of the hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri), a jawless vertebrate.

The popular nursery rhyme This Little Piggy is an early childhood memory for many of us. It’s a poem that involves five little piggies, each corresponding to one of our fingers or toes. Kids love it, ...

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 ...

A large fish-eating dinosaur died beside a river 125 million years ago in Cretaceous Thailand. Now, the remains of this ...

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 ...