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Blind Cavefish Evolved to Have More External Taste Buds

Taste buds evolved on the head and chin of blind cavefish to help them locate food in their dark environment.

Biology

The Dayak fruit bat is the only known male mammal that produces milk. Why aren’t all mammals evolved for breastfeeding their young?

Blubber thickness of Yangtze finless porpoises changes with water temperature and varies across the marine mammal’s body regions.

Emperor penguins officially a threatened species because of projections of population decline from climate change and ineffective conservation.

It’s cold outside! Stay in with some fun citizen science projects you can do from your living room.

To better attract pollinators, plants change the chemical and physical properties of their petals to produce alluring colors.

Most roadkill goes unreported, meaning governments and scientists don’t have the data needed to prevent it. You can help change that!

Fall means back to school—check out these five citizen science projects on a variety of topics to bring the classroom to your living room!

The beloved American pika is losing its habitat. These little animals could loose 75 percent of their range quite soon to climate change.

These goats that live in the Italian Alps appear to be shrinking in size, according to research from Durham University.