Anyone visiting the seaside knows to protect their chips and ice cream from beady–eyed seagulls. But there's another hazard associated with the birds – their poop. Now experts have revealed just how ...

Humans live in a world abundant in salt, but this everyday seasoning is a luxury for wild herbivores, and it's far from clear ...

Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, but why did it live so long ...

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

This important study shows that different forms and mixtures of cardenolide toxins in tropical milkweed, especially nitrogen- and sulfur-containing types, change how monarch caterpillars eat, grow, ...