The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies ...

Fire crews are not just fighting a fire, but the weather, as they work to contain the Monroe Canyon Fire as it races toward ...

Oysters and mangroves are both essential to protecting and restoring Florida's coastlines that they call home, including ...

A model wasp species loved and well studied by scientists has another trick under its wings – the ability to pause ...

A creature resembling a jellyfish was spotted in a pond at Presque Isle State Park. Said creature is called a Craspedacusta ...

A fossil unearthed during the Civil War was mislabeled for over a century, and is now said to be something completely ...

Perfect Organism is all of the above, and more. That can occasionally be an awkward fit, like a Chestburster and, well, a ...

Here’s a fun science fact for the day: down in the ocean’s darkest, coldest depths, an area we’ll call Davy Jones’ sub-locker ...

To compare all the genes of one organism to those of another organism, we must first know how to define the entire gene sequence of each organism. However, looking at all of an organism's genes ...

Their research report describes a new organism they've put together, using only 473 genes. That gives it the smallest genome of any known living thing that is able to reproduce on its own. (For ...

Yet the largest recorded organism on Earth, weighing more than 200 blue whales and dwarfing even Pando, Utah’s famous grove of quaking aspens, is nearly invisible to the untrained eye.

This organism is a single cell organism, entirely analogous to the syphilis bacterium. It's sexually transmitted from one dog to the next. It produces tumors that can kill its victims.