Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

Scientists say they have discovered three previously unknown, unnamed species of sea spider off the U.S. West Coast that could be teaming up with bacteria to thrive off gas bubbling from the seafloor ...

New footage from Hawaiian waters shows something that should be impossible: unlikely companions sharing dinner without any ...

Bonsai trees of all sorts, shapes, and sizes are on display at the Longview Arboretum Thursday. Longview Bonsai Society ...

New DNA and protein studies reveal the Dragon Man skull is Denisovan, rewriting the story of early human evolution in Asia.

Survival of the fittest is expertly exemplified by one marine creature: Minnesota’s freshwater mussels. These shellfish are ...

Illinois’ nearly extinct prairie chicken and Chicago’s famous piping plovers, Monty and Rose, are among the highlights of the ‘Winging It’ show.

Volunteers and conservation groups and agencies are in the jack pine forests this week, counting the Kirtland's warbler which ...

Ornithologists and locals wonder what the future holds for this chick being raised by much taller, but still doting parents ...

Off the east coast of China, researchers discovered an unusual spiky creature feeding on a jellyfish-like species called a hydroid. In recent years, similar specimens were recorded in that region of ...

A kelp gull has been spotted in Milwaukee under the Hoan Bridge, the first confirmed sighting of the species in Wisconsin.

Those with a fear of snakes will have to keep that fear in check while visiting Tennessee, where it is illegal to kill snakes.