Biology

Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped containment

The nonprofit iNaturalist announced that it received a $1.5-million grant from Google’s philanthropic arm to develop generative AI tools for species identification. The news didn’t go over well

The Asian needle ant looks ordinary, but its sting can be worse than a fire ant’s and can be dangerous for anyone who has experienced anaphylaxis

This Father’s Day, we’re celebrating the unusually involved Djungarian hamster dads

Our skin’s epithelial cells send electrical signals like neurons to cry out for help

Could the spectrum of animal lifespans hold clues about the science of aging?

Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big superorganism

The Haenyeo, an all-female group of divers on South Korea’s Jeju Island, spend much of their lives underwater without equipment—a “superpower” that may be written into their DNA

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more transmissible

Behavioral ecologist David Hughes, who consulted on the video game that inspired the hit TV show The Last of Us, speaks about how our experience with the COVID pandemic changed the way we relate to zombie fiction

Fifty years ago the movie Jaws scared beachgoers and demonized sharks. Now, however, the public is evolving a better understanding

A large language model for dolphin vocalization could let us better understand these beloved marine mammals.