Animals

Found preserved in 30-million-year-old amber, the "mold pig" is so different from anything else that it’s been placed in a new genus all of its own.

It takes something truly extraordinary to kill a tardigrade. Scientists have uncovered a neat trick they employ to endure inhospitable conditions.

Researchers from UT Southwestern implanted “memories” into the brains of zebra finches, teaching them to sing a song they’ve never actually heard.

A new species of microscopic worm found in Mono Lake in California is able to survive huge doses of arsenic, and is divided into three sexes.

HOK, Perkins + Will, and Morphosis feature in 2019's Architects for Animals Giving Shelter event, which tasks architects with designing cat shelters.

Researchers have found evidence that Schomburgk’s deer – thought extinct since 1938 – may have lived until at least the 1990s, and possibly still today.

You might think we'd have discovered of all the big animals by now, but Japanese scientists have found a previously-unknown whale species.

Researchers have managed to successfully edit the genes of lizards with CRISPR for the first time, turning them albino.

A new study led by University of Queensland researchers is suggesting fecal transplants may help koalas in Australia adapt to new habitats.

Palaeontologists in New Zealand have now uncovered the remains of Heracles inexpectatus, an extinct giant parrot that would have stood hip-high to most people and packed a beak powerful enough to crack open pretty much whatever it wanted to.

Our bodies aren't great at regeneration. Other creatures have mastered this skill though, and now scientists at the University of California Davis (UC Davis) and Harvard have sequenced the RNA transcripts for the immortal hydra and figured out how it manages to do just that.

Under the right conditions, DNA can last for thousands of years. RNA, on the other hand, degrades much more quickly and was thought impossible to recover in older samples. But now researchers have isolated and sequenced the RNA of a 14,000-year-old wolf found frozen in the Siberian permafrost.