Learn why basking turtles in April are doing far more than sunbathing, from thermoregulation to parasite control and growth.

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Commenting on the incident, the ten-cell leader of Nyantorotoro B, Mr Damian Mosha, said he received a phone call at around ...

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Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) not only impact an individual's health, but also result in multibillion-dollar ...

Learn how specialized sensory cells and 500 million neurons help octopuses recognize mates and reproduce through touch alone.

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive and sensory organ, Harvard scientists and others have found. Octopuses are some of ...

As humpback whale numbers climb back after decades of large-scale hunting, scientists are spotting strange things. A new ...

Scientists found that the male’s hectocotylus, the specialized arm for mating, is lined with receptors that can sense ...

When the scientists paired two male octopuses in the same setup, the males interacted by touching arms, but they never ...

For two decades, a team of researchers cloned mice from successive generations of clones until the new clones were no longer ...