Colossal Biosciences is attempting to do something that many of us only thought was possible in the movies, and the ...

They get a bad rep - but on the big screen, they're kings. On World Rat Day, Euronews Culture squeaks its mind by celebrating ...

There are many things that set humans apart from other animals, but few of them are as notable as our ability to communicate.

For this research, the scientists therefore required mice with a genetic makeup that was as consistent as possible. A breakthrough was achieved in 1909 when researchers managed for the first time to ...

The leaves are brewed into an herbal tea, traditionally inside a mate gourd. It tastes earthy ... In the study, mice were given yerba maté for four weeks. The researchers found that at the ...

A decade ago, nobody reported seeing rats in their homes around the South Shore of Lake Tahoe, but that has now changed.

Known for spending much of its life underground, the little-known American burying beetle could hold the key to developing the next generation of antibiotic treatments.  For the past two decades, ...

NPR science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how Fiddler crabs drum their mating songs into the sand, growing chicken nuggets in the lab, and a drug like LSD -- without the trip.

In one, what looks like a pointillist painting illustrates a young zebra finch's myriad attempts to sound more like an adult, capable of wooing a mate ... are shared by mice, primates, humans.

"We know that male worms will abandon food to look for a mate, so it is possible that their ... "In past studies, scientists discovered that female mice have lower levels of NPY than males ...