Wildfires, while destructive, often spare wildlife populations, as animals are adept at avoiding danger, said Jen Bruns, ...

Research conducted by an international team and led by biologists at the University of Kentucky has found that the ability to ...

Regeneration refers to the ability of an organism to replace lost or damaged tissue. While humans possess limited regenerative abilities—a scraped knee heals over time, for instance—many animals can ...

It is a crucial ecosystem that provides habitat for over 200 species of plants, fish, and animals, including the Mexican salamander, better known as the axolotl. What makes Lake Xochimilco ...

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They may look like an alien organism or some kind of giant plant, but sea sponges are part of the animal kingdom. While scientists are still learning more about their life spans, these deep-sea ...

“With evolutionary advances, it is possible, if not probable, that they might develop ways to breathe outside of water and eventually hunt terrestrial animals like deer, sheep, and other mammals – ...

This eliminates the need for separate bone grafts or adhesives, enabling the hydrogel to provide both bone regeneration and adhesion. In experiments using animal models with femoral bone defects ...

Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute and their collaborators at other institutions have used a protein from zebrafish dubbed Hmga1 which plays a key role in heart regeneration, to reactivate ...