Spanish highways are increasingly incorporating walkways specially designed for wild animals, or mixed use structures designed for other purposes, which connect wildlife from one side of the road to ...

These animals prove you don't need human hands to create something remarkable. The natural world is full of amazing creatures that build incredible structures. From tiny insects to large mammals, ...

Debate has been raging over the past few years as to whether it is possible or not to determine the color of an animal from its fossils. It all centers on whether pigment-containing structures in ...

Wildlife crossings cut down on roadkill. But are they really a boon for conservation? In the mid-2000s, toads were meeting a gruesome end near Ede, an old, leafy town in the middle of the Netherlands.

The Cyclostomata is an ancient group of aquatic colonial suspension-feeders from the phylum Bryozoa. The fact that they have unique placentae has been discovered by researchers at St Petersburg ...

IT has been demonstrated both by electron ray and by ordinary and polarized light microscopy that the cellulose cell-wall of green plants has a fibrillar structure 1,2. Since bacterial cellulose ...

From whale hearts to giraffe tongues, explore how huge and tiny animal body parts really are, using everyday objects as your ...

Bacterial biofilms contain a level of structural organisation that we thought was unique to plants and animals. Biofilms, slimy clumps of microorganisms like bacteria and fungi, were long thought to ...

Researchers have discovered geometric, hollow, ball-like structures in 80-million-year-old fossils of bizarre marine animals. Palaeobiologists Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill and Aaron Hunter identified the ...