Missouri’s state symbols showcase the items, plants, animals and places that form the unique culture the Show-Me State is known for. State symbols are meant to be educational, especially for ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

In January, biologists in the Los Angeles area rushed to rescue tiny northern tidewater gobies ( Eucyclogobius newberryi) in Malibu’s Topanga Canyon Lagoon. The devastating Palisades fire had ...

Cambridge and Oxford researchers propose the placenta drove human evolution by shaping our large, social brains.

Eight species of thrashers live in North America, most of them in the Southwest deserts. The sage thrasher is the smallest, ...

I woke up before 4 a.m. and got right out of bed. I wasn't sick and I wasn't giving up on any more shut eye after one of those inexplicable nights of tossing and turning. I did it in the name of ...

There are dozens of species of robins, but the relationship between these different birds is often less rooted in shared ...