Hero shrews have among the weirdest backbones within the animal kingdom -- they're extremely sturdy, with tales of a zero.25-pound shrew supporting a grown man standing on its again. Nobody is aware of what they use these super-strong spines for, although, so scientists took micro-CT scans to look at the ...

When you took a cautious take a look at the feathers on a hen, you'd discover many various kinds throughout the identical chicken -- even inside a single feather. The range of feather shapes and capabilities expands vastly when you think about the feathers of birds starting from ostriches to ...

Main bodily adjustments occurred within the human coronary heart as folks shifted from looking and foraging to farming and fashionable life. Consequently, human hearts at the moment are much less 'ape-like' and higher suited to endurance sorts of exercise.

New computational evaluation finds that greater than two dozen human zinc finger transcription elements, beforehand thought to manage exercise of comparable genes throughout species have in actual fact human-specific roles and will assist clarify how our species got here to be.

The US navy industrial advanced has grown right into a self-sustaining organism with an immune system that assaults and smothers any menace to its meals provide – the taxpayers' cash, writes famend protection analyst Andrew Cockburn. ...

In a bunch of bark lice, a penis has developed twice -- within the females. Of their nutrient-scarce setting, 'seminal items' are an incentive for females to power mating, resulting in the co-evolution of feminine penises and male vaginas.