Animals with slower metabolisms and heart rates tend to outlive ... [Featured image by Hemming1952 via Wikimedia Commons | ...

In the depths of the ocean, a creature called the Monorhaphis chuni sponge is challenging our understanding of longevity.

For dessert? Affogato with house ice cream. Meanwhile, at Newport’s La Forge Casino, you might start with a Rhode Island stuffed quahog or cheddar-stuffed pretzels before digging into baked ...

Hydra are a stand-out example of the phenomenon, but they aren’t necessarily unique in their resistance to time. A handful of ...

As behavioral ecologists, we are interested in how adverse experiences early in life can affect animals' behavior, including the kinds of decisions they make and the way they interact with the ...

The third-largest outbreak in history of the deadly Marburg virus was sparked by a single jump of the pathogen from an animal to humans, preliminary genomic evidence shows. The outbreak began last ...

This past spring, Harvard University evolutionary biologist Joanna Wolfe, Ph.D., was in Okinawa, Japan, gathering information for her research on carcinization, or the study of how animals take on ...

“To our knowledge, it is the first time that animal life has been discovered in the ocean crust,” Sabine Gollner, a marine biologist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea ...

The Earth is home to some amazing animals, and many of them are well-known. Everybody knows how quick cheetahs are, how big elephants can grow, and how adorable chipmunks can be. But there are some ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...