Life Sciences and Biomedicine Archives

Preserving a Soft Skeleton: Backs without Bones

By Sebastien Enault What are shark skeletons made of? The skeleton of modern sharks, rays, and skates consists of cartilage,…

Environment

By Kate Stone Scientists have developed a new method to more accurately measure and predict heat waves, and the results…

By Steven Spence This is the second part of our series on turtles and how cute animals can inspire successful…

Steven Spence visits Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens to photograph an aquatic turtle with many names: the Arrau River or giant South American turtle.

By Florian Celli Florian Celli is a PhD student of biophysics in the Center for Atomic Energy (CEA of Saclay)…

By Max Goldberg During my last trip through Alaska, I was primarily focused on photographing the wild grizzly bears as they fished…

By Emily Willoughby For centuries, dinosaurs have captured the public’s imagination through their massive proportions and power, and their ancestral…

Join wildlife photographer Max Goldberg watching grizzly bears fishing for salmon in Alaska. Check out the rest of the series for more.

For years, evolutionary biologists have wondered about the ecosystems of the Pleistocene epoch. How did so many species of huge,…

Dr. Joe delivers another terrific It’s OK To Be Smart video, and we are excited to share it with you.…