Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

Researchers have uncovered 300-million-year-old reptile skin impressions in Germany, the oldest direct evidence of reptile ...

The ingredient — a staple of cuisines around the world — is increasingly showing up on restaurant menus and in cookbooks in the U.S.

Natural muscle fibers are made up of spring-like proteins that can contract and stretch without losing their original form, dissipate mechanical energy as heat and maintain incredible tensile strength ...

Triceratops rerouted its nerves and blood vessels through its nose, turning its massive nasal cavity into a system for ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed an intranasal liposomal vaccine that protected mice against SARS-CoV-2, Staphylococcus aureus, other coronaviruses, and even common allergens, using a ...

Triceratops’ massive head may have been doing more than just showing off those famous horns. Using CT scans and 3D reconstructions of fossil skulls, researchers uncovered a surprisingly complex nasal ...

Triceratops and other horned dinosaurs had exceptionally large nasal cavities compared to most animals. To better understand what filled that space ...

Across deserts, ocean floors, and forest undergrowth, a handful of animals have evolved defenses so extreme they strain ...

A UCSF team finds a liver protein, released with exercise, that improves memory in aging and Alzheimer’s disease by repairing ...

A flexible tongue, sensitive beak and teethlike cones in the mouth may have helped Archaeopteryx generate enough energy to fly.

Hollywood’s adoption of visual effects – also referred to as computer generated imagery, or CGI – has had an outsized role in putting many animal actors out of work. Ever since “Jurassic Park” (1993) ...