They therefore trapped small mammals—mostly mice, voles, squirrels and shrews—at 40 sites in the wildernesses of eastern ...

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Everything is Crab is a fascinating genetic adventure. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. What I have learned after two hours ...

A Clostridium botulinum spore is a tough, dormant form of the Clostridium botulinum bacterium that allows it to survive in harsh environmental conditions for long periods. These spores are widespread ...

Plant reproduction is highly complex and variable across the kingdom. The emergence of sexual reproduction has contributed to increase plant genetic diversity and enabled the colonisation of new ...

WTF?! Remember Spore, the PC game that released in 2008 to rave reviews? Last month, just over 17 years since it launched, somebody in the US bought a physical copy of Maxis' genre-blending title. It ...

As shown in an exclusive interview with the show’s creators done by ComicBook, there are a couple of key reasons the spores were replaced with tendrils in The Last of Us HBO series. As it turns out, ...

In a world saturated with sexual narratives, the absence of sexual desire can be perplexing. But asexuality, defined as having little to no sexual attraction or sexual desire, is a valid sexual ...

In Telford's Exotic Zoo, life found a way. A casque-headed iguana has given birth to eight babies at the Shropshire wildlife park – without any contact with a male, via a phenomenon called ...