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Museum specimens reveal North America’s largest crayfish and suggest most giant species reach a similar upper body size.

Crown-of-thorns starfish can devastate reefs in outbreaks, but new research suggests small populations may help maintain ...

Romantic partners may help regulate more than emotions. New research links their presence to lower blood sugar spikes.

Asteroid Bennu's chemical fingerprint is revealing new clues about where it formed and the surprising role Jupiter played in ...

Grasslands in Iceland stored more topsoil carbon with continued grazing, suggesting livestock removal does not always benefit ...

In schooling fish, the same midbrain cells answer a fleeing neighbor and a vanishing one, and both send the whole group ...

A surprisingly simple visual pattern can confuse the depth perception systems used by self-driving cars, drones, and robots.

Cats and dogs preferred pet food made with microbial protein over a conventional formula in a new two-bowl feeding study.

On World Gorilla Day, recent discoveries reveal remarkable new details about how gorillas think, remember, socialize, and survive.

Eastern gray squirrels can be black or gray, and new research reveals how surprisingly local conditions are linked to their coat color.