Author: Jake Buehler

New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors that determine longevity.

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the evolution of spinnerets.

The rockhead poacher is a little fish with a big pit in its head. The divot may be like a drum, making sound that rises

Arabian cheetah mummies’ DNA reveals that the long-lost population could be closely replaced by a cheetah population in northwestern Africa.

A study on rabbits dosed with viper venom suggests that botulinum toxin may alleviate some effects of snakebite, possibly by dampening inflammation.