The platypus is one of nature’s strangest mammals. This egg-laying animal sweats milk, hunts by sensing electrical signals, carries venomous spurs, and even glows under ultraviolet light. Discover the ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

INDIANAPOLIS — Conservation is going head-to-head at the Indianapolis Zoo where an online voting challenge will end with one species rising above the rest. The Uproar Conservation Challenge is a ...

The public is invited to make their voices heard in an online, head-to-head voting challenge, helping species advance round by round until a champion is crowned.

Animal Jam is a National Geographic-affiliated educational game aimed at tweens and younger, but this wholesomely edutaining MMO really is something everyone can enjoy. Like many free-to-play games, ...

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life ...