The University of New Mexico's Museum of Southwestern Biology, Natural Heritage New Mexico, and the New Mexico BioPark ...

Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as the "living fossils" of our planet—the four known species, including three in Asia ...

It’s not just the big-name celebrities of the skeleton—the hips and knees and shoulders—that scream at us as we accumulate ...

During snowless winters like we are having this year, I relish the evergreen plants in my garden as they add a touch of green ...

"Most scorpions are likely capable of spraying venom. They just don't do it. This extreme behavioral response is only known ...

Taking a turn from the standard velcro straps, the new MoonSwatch straps are made from rubber with a bioceramic loop and ...

Pioneering research reveals the origins of the ventral nerve cord in early molting animals. An international team of ...

Tropical forests host an estimated 62% of global terrestrial vertebrate species on less than 20% of the Earth's land area and ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface ...

For example, priapulids exhibit a single ventral ... while loriciferans and kinorhynchs share a similar nervous system design with arthropods, they are phylogenetically distant.

The jumbo isopod has been named Bathynomus vaderi because its carapaced cranium resembles Darth Vader’s iconic helmet from “Star Wars, Livescience reported. This particular critter, which resides in ...