For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to mammals gone extinct—are available for all to see, via their bones and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American An evolutionary arms race during the ...

Oregon Zoo’s head veterinarian Carlos Sanchez is gazing intently at a monitor in the zoo’s Veterinary Medical Center. On the screen there’s an eerily beautiful radiograph of a bat, made during an exam ...

A huge virtual gallery of museum skeletons is fully open for viewing. A large group of scientists has painstakingly created 3D reconstructions of thousands of vertebrate specimens, which are now ...

When paleontologists picture the earliest animals, they tend to imagine something with at least a rudimentary skeleton: a ...