These animals prove you don't need human hands to create something remarkable. The natural world is full of amazing creatures that build incredible structures. From tiny insects to large mammals, ...

Animals sculpt the optical properties of their tissues at the nanoscale to give themselves “structural colors.” New work is piecing together how they do it. Peacocks, panther chameleons, scarlet ...

Wildlife is increasingly using underpasses and overpasses along busy roadways, as wildlife corridors are built to help keep both humans and wildlife safer. In Wilson, Wyoming, cameras caught entire ...

The Cyclostomata is an ancient group of aquatic colonial suspension-feeders from the phylum Bryozoa. The fact that they have unique placentae has been discovered by researchers at St Petersburg ...

Study reveals that early embryonic cells can switch roles, reshaping what we know about how fins, gills, and other body ...

Researchers have discovered geometric, hollow, ball-like structures in 80-million-year-old fossils of bizarre marine animals. Palaeobiologists Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill and Aaron Hunter identified the ...

Bacterial biofilms contain a level of structural organisation that we thought was unique to plants and animals. Biofilms, slimy clumps of microorganisms like bacteria and fungi, were long thought to ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...