Discover the 10 oldest animal fossils ever found, revealing ancient life forms that shaped evolution. Explore their origins, ...

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has issued revised curricula for Associate, Bachelor, and Master degrees in Zoology, ...

Detecting danger is key to the survival and success of all species. Animal nervous and immune systems cooperate to optimize danger detection. Preceding studies have highlighted the benefits of ...

Figure 3. Fatty acid elongation by the ELOVL family of enzymes. Diagram of the four-step fatty acid elongation cycle indicating the mammalian (ALL CAPITALS) and the yeast enzymes involved in each step ...

Middle age is when you get to know your joints. I have spent the last few years learning that my many youthful party tricks—popping shoulders out of their sockets on a whim, bending elbows ...

Innate immunity has a long phylogenetic history, encompassing species as diverse as sea anemones, insects and mammals. By contrast, adaptive immunity, which involves lymphocyte-like cells and the ...

The apextrin C-terminal (ApeC) is a new class of protein domains, characterized by a sequence of about 200 amino acid residues, comprising eight conserved Cysteine residues and three relatively ...

Try this: Well, perhaps, what sharpens your wits while travelling on water is indeed a distant, roundabout echo of the good old chordates. At any rate, your sense of another on water gets keener, as ...