If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Cattails (Typha latifolia) are the iconic freshwater wetland plant. Where there is fresh water and some sun, there will be ...

One reason Moringa is considered a superfood is its exceptional nutritional profile. The leaves of the Moringa tree are ...

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg ...

Venom isn’t just a feature of some animals; it’s found across the living world, from plants and fungi to bacteria and viruses ...

Previously believed to be plant or fungi, these giant organisms may have been a now-extinct fourth type of life.

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Skin flakes are hard to digest. It’s like eating hair, or feathers. So dust mites have powerful digestive enzymes to break the skin down. Those enzymes turn up in dust mite poop. And let’s just say ...

With increased awareness about food sources and their environmental impacts, replacing animal-derived products in food and ...

As nations continue to experience exponential population growth, the unending search for food security continues to take ...

Discover the many amazing similarities between humans and animals, get a buzz out of the remarkable life of bees, enjoy ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...