To understand how these large snakes can regenerate their intestines without intestinal crypts, scientists sequenced the RNA genes of pythons. By learning more about this process in reptiles, ...

All animals possess some capacity for repairing and replacing the lining of their intestines, a process called intestinal ...

In the Year of the Dragon, scientists have made an exciting discovery: a complete fossil of an aquatic reptile resembling a ...

The Living Planet Index tracks thousands of vertebrate species globally and found the worst declines were in Latin America ...

The existence of this shared sensory pathway in modern reptiles offers a unique window into the evolutionary history of vertebrate sensory systems, suggesting that the transition from aquatic to ...

4 in the peer-reviewed journal Vertebrate Zoology. To investigate, researchers visited dozens of sites across nine countries over several decades. They caught several amphibians thought to be ...

David Hayter, the veteran voice behind Metal Gear’s Solid Snake, has teased a return to the iconic role he last played over a decade ago. Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima controversially replaced ...

What’s a bit odd about Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater still not having a release date is that Konami has had the game available for pre-order for multiple months. In fact, there’s even a ...

Part of the evolutionary process is the inevitable extinction of different animal species over time. For some species, this simply means slowly evolving into something different, while for others, it ...

"While regular cheese is soft, this one has dried out, becoming dense, hard, and powdery," said Qiaomei Fu, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the ...

The insects and birds who pollinate plants are dynamic, moving from flower to flower — while the flowers and the plants on which they bloomed remain in the same place (as plants tend to do).