It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ...

Are recycled bottles safe? A study suggests chemical mixtures in recycled plastics might affect metabolism and hormone ...

Parental egg-care in fish traps them in an evolutionary dead-end through the loss of the chorion-hardening system, according to scientists from the Institute of Science Tokyo. Fish have diverse ...

More than 500 native plants in San Diego County are held in a Native Seed Bank at the zoo. Those seeds are dried down to a ...

The first mice to be created from two fathers, a phenomenon known as androgenesis, have now produced healthy offspring for ...

My aging skin issues has made me more conscientious about sun protection. Someone mentioned the other day about chemical ...

UC Berkeley and Caltech researchers identified a gene circuit in zebrafish that allows heart regeneration after injury. Using ...

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...

For decades, scientists have known that platypuses and echidnas – Australia’s unique egg-laying mammals – have another developmental quirk: they don’t use the same genetic toolkit as other mammals to ...

Incredible images created by our scientists using advanced microscopes are helping to drive biological discovery ...

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance reached a historical milestone after adding an endangered plant species to its Frozen Zoo ...

A woman injured this week in waters off Jones Beach State Park was likely bitten by a shark, authorities said, in one of the ...