Animals
Scientists Say: Vertebrate
Animals with spines, or vertebrates, come in all shapes and sizes.
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Animals with spines, or vertebrates, come in all shapes and sizes.
Because it can be dangerous, doctors should regularly screen for it even in young kids and teens — but often don’t.
Making such organoids with 3-D printing and other tech can help researchers learn more about many troubling and potentially deadly disorders.
Over 4,000 species of fish make their home among the reefs created by these colony-dwelling marine animals.
Glass frogs snoozing among leaves blend in by hiding almost all their red blood cells in their liver.
A nose-picking aye-aye’s spindly middle digit probably pokes all the way into the back of the throat, CT scans show.
Concussions change certain brain waves, and delta waves may be the best signs of when teens can return to competitive sports.
Scientists thought the chemical oxytocin was required to make prairie voles mate. They were wrong.
Animals that go through metamorphosis look very different as adults than they did as kids.
Ayla was treated before birth for the rare, life-threatening Pompe disease. Now a thriving 16-month-old toddler, her treatments will still need to continue.