Australia can lay claim to two new species of native rodent thanks to a new study. The aptly named delicate mouse was previously thought to be a single species spanning a massive stretch of the ...

Across the animal world, some species decline rapidly after reaching adulthood while others stay active and healthy for years ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

Researchers working in a remote stretch of northern Peru have identified 27 species previously unknown to science, a haul ...

Credit: Shutterstock A wild mouse with an unusually long life may reveal clues to healthy aging. Aging is often treated as an unavoidable biological process, but evolution tells a more complicated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During an expedition to the Peruvian region of Alto Mayo, scientists working with Awajun indigenous communities discovered new ...

Basic ecology uses simple diagrams to illustrate how biomass is distributed in ecosystems. These “ecological pyramids” lump all primary producers (plants) at the base of the pyramid. The second level ...

The scenes are biblical. Tens of thousands of rodents scattering across canola fields, behind sheds, into machinery. River ...