Most people think superpowers belong in comic books, but nature’s been handing them out for millions of years. Some animals can regrow lost limbs, detect electric fields, or even survive in outer ...

Dire wolves stalk modern imagination as fantasy mascots, but the real animals were Ice Age predators that lived, hunted, and died across the Americas. They were heavier than today’s gray wolves, ...

Real guppies respond to Robofish—a 3D-printed plastic model with a vaguely realistic paint job—as if it were a real schoolmate. Researchers used different-sized Robofish to show that guppy schools ...

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a nanomaterial capable of simultaneously performing cancer diagnosis, treatment, and immune response induction.

Nature has always loved surprises. Just when we think we understand how the world works, an animal comes along and quietly breaks all the rules. Some creatures glow in the dark, some survive without ...