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Quick, imagine an animal tongue. What came into your mind? The flicking forked tongue of a snake? A cow licking a block of ...

Crocodiles have a powerful shape and rugged texture that make them an exciting subject for drawing practice. This tutorial teaches how to draw a crocodile using a clear step by step method that starts ...

Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than scientists once believed. By modeling how sound moved ...

When considering the fastest animals on Earth, size seems like it should matter. Yet the cheetah, weighing around 50 ...

For more than a century, fossil bones from the cliffs of southwest England were labeled as reptile limbs or random fragments. A new study shows that many of them actually belonged to coelacanths, the ...

It’s easy to assume P. goliah and other giant kangaroos lost their ability to hop as a result of all that bulk. After all, ...

Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see ...

Scientists discovered fossilized reptile skin in an Oklahoma cave, revealing the oldest known example dating back nearly 300 million years.

In a year marked by technological change, innovations in science and renewed curiosity about our past and future, faculty emerged as essential voices helping audiences make sense of the world.

Anyone who’s ever spent any time online has probably seen the honey badger described as the world’s most fearless animal.

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