With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

Scientists examined a fossilized plesiosaur’s soft tissue, revealing a unique mix of smooth and scaly skin. Smooth skin ...

But they actually belong to the class Actinopterygii (bony fish), which includes salmon and ... This aspect of their anatomy also makes them skilled hitchhikers. They may not be able to travel ...

Rapid FISH studies using probes specific for the X (DX1 ... the degree of virilisation of the internal genital tracts is defined by Prader stages I–V (fig 2). The anatomy of the vagina or a urogenital ...

Unfortunately, several factors, including the fish's inherent clumsiness and large size, worked against the Mola Mola in this situation. "The mola is the heaviest of all the bony fish, with large ...

Deputies said they identified the fish as a Mola Mola, also known as an ocean sunfish. The Mola Mola are the heaviest of all the bony fish, with large specimens reaching 14 feet vertically ...