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Animals: are multicellular organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.
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AUG 29, 2017Videos
Unlike animals and humans, plants are literally rooted to the ground. This means that they have fewer options of defendi ...AUG 29, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Cats have been traveling with people for thousands of years, carried by mariners, farmers and Vikings.Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 29, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s upcoming InSight mission will be the first of any to go to Mars and investigate the deep subsurface of the ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 29, 2017Plants & Animals
Whenever horrendous flooding sweeps through an area, locals often spot massive brown blobs floating atop the flood and f ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 28, 2017Videos
A woman from rural New York was recently attacked by a rabid coyote. Coyotes usually attack smaller animals (small dogs ...AUG 28, 2017Plants & Animals
Facial recognition is just one way that people differentiate one person from another, but it's not unique to humans; ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 27, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
A common class of chemical compounds found in many household items may be de-energizing mammalian cells.Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 27, 2017Microbiology
With all the talk of the human microbiome, it’s worth pointing out that other organisms- even teeny tiny ones - ha ...Written By: Kerry EvansAUG 27, 2017Plants & Animals
A new species of frog discovered throughout the Western Ghats mountain range in India looks unlike any other frog you&rs ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 26, 2017Videos
A staggering 30-50% of the world's population is estimated to be infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. This para ...AUG 25, 2017Plants & Animals
It’s typical for alike animals to befriend one another, but an even rarer occurrence is when two unlike animals do ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 24, 2017Plants & Animals
The snow leopard is a creature that resides on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 24, 2017Plants & Animals
Meet Oreo; he’s a poodle from Connecticut that lived a normal life up until he developed a massive tumor on his ch ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 23, 2017Cancer
Most everyone who consumes avocados have come to regard the center pit as a mere obstacle to the green and butter smooth ...AUG 23, 2017Earth & The Environment
Permafrost. It even sounds intimidating. Permanent frost, forever frozen. Brrrr. Except in our warming planet, the frost ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 23, 2017Plants & Animals
Bindi Irwin’s Australia Zoo was blessed with the birth of a rare white female koala joey, but it currently doesn&r ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 22, 2017Plants & Animals
Climate change is a major concern for environmentalists; one of the things they do is try to protect wildlife from succu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 21, 2017Earth & The Environment
You may have seen some news out about the Yellowstone supervolcano recently, but what’s really going on down in th ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 21, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Our genomic material is in a constant state of replication, and errors in that process have been linked to disease. New ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 21, 2017Plants & Animals
Butterflies are perhaps one of the world’s most-loved insect species. Not only are they completely harmless, but t ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 19, 2017Videos
Humans have succeeded where other species have failed because of our ingenuity. But the same technologies and inventions ...AUG 19, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
New work is upending an old theory about the development of sex-specific mammalian reproductive systems.Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 19, 2017Videos
It wasn't very long ago that George Burgess, the Director of the Florida Program for Shark Research, explained why shark ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 19, 2017Plants & Animals
Staff from the Shibukawa Zoological Park in Japan were left in shock after one of their tortoises went missing. Although ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
AUG 29, 2017
Videos
Unlike animals and humans, plants are literally rooted to the ground. This means that they have fewer options of defendi
...
AUG 29, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cats have been traveling with people for thousands of years, carried by mariners, farmers and Vikings.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 29, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s upcoming InSight mission will be the first of any to go to Mars and investigate the deep subsurface of the
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 29, 2017
Plants & Animals
Whenever horrendous flooding sweeps through an area, locals often spot massive brown blobs floating atop the flood and f
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 28, 2017
Videos
A woman from rural New York was recently attacked by a rabid coyote. Coyotes usually attack smaller animals (small dogs
...
AUG 28, 2017
Plants & Animals
Facial recognition is just one way that people differentiate one person from another, but it's not unique to humans;
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 27, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
A common class of chemical compounds found in many household items may be de-energizing mammalian cells.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 27, 2017
Microbiology
With all the talk of the human microbiome, it’s worth pointing out that other organisms- even teeny tiny ones - ha
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 27, 2017
Plants & Animals
A new species of frog discovered throughout the Western Ghats mountain range in India looks unlike any other frog you&rs
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 26, 2017
Videos
A staggering 30-50% of the world's population is estimated to be infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. This para
...
AUG 25, 2017
Plants & Animals
It’s typical for alike animals to befriend one another, but an even rarer occurrence is when two unlike animals do
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 24, 2017
Plants & Animals
The snow leopard is a creature that resides on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 24, 2017
Plants & Animals
Meet Oreo; he’s a poodle from Connecticut that lived a normal life up until he developed a massive tumor on his ch
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 23, 2017
Cancer
Most everyone who consumes avocados have come to regard the center pit as a mere obstacle to the green and butter smooth
...
AUG 23, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Permafrost. It even sounds intimidating. Permanent frost, forever frozen. Brrrr. Except in our warming planet, the frost
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 23, 2017
Plants & Animals
Bindi Irwin’s Australia Zoo was blessed with the birth of a rare white female koala joey, but it currently doesn&r
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 22, 2017
Plants & Animals
Climate change is a major concern for environmentalists; one of the things they do is try to protect wildlife from succu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 21, 2017
Earth & The Environment
You may have seen some news out about the Yellowstone supervolcano recently, but what’s really going on down in th
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 21, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Our genomic material is in a constant state of replication, and errors in that process have been linked to disease. New
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 21, 2017
Plants & Animals
Butterflies are perhaps one of the world’s most-loved insect species. Not only are they completely harmless, but t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 19, 2017
Videos
Humans have succeeded where other species have failed because of our ingenuity. But the same technologies and inventions
...
AUG 19, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
New work is upending an old theory about the development of sex-specific mammalian reproductive systems.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 19, 2017
Videos
It wasn't very long ago that George Burgess, the Director of the Florida Program for Shark Research, explained why shark
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 19, 2017
Plants & Animals
Staff from the Shibukawa Zoological Park in Japan were left in shock after one of their tortoises went missing. Although
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard