Last year, much of the world's largest coral reef system was transformed into a white boneyard, featuring ghostly silhouettes ...

In zebrafish, ketamine causes changes a brain circuit involved in "giving up." That may help explain how the drug helps people with depression.

Incredible images from the Nature Photographer of the Year awards from playful snow leopards and inquisitive guanacos to ...

Here’s what your school district or university is saying about closings or delays this week, and how they’ll notify you about ...

The animal kingdom is a truly fascinating (and sometimes disgusting) place. For example, koalas eat their mothers’ poop until ...

Not only do they occupy disparate branches of the animal family tree, but they also live in different habitats ... It’s as if a frog, say, were to revert to a tadpole or a butterfly to a ...

Have you seen cane toads hopping around your yard? If you have then you might want to get involved in the Byron Shire Cane Toad Bust from 18 January to 21 January.

First, tadpoles grow back legs, then front ones. Skin grows over the gills they use to breathe underwater. Their tails shrink ...

Young frogs and toads, after they first hatch from eggs, are called tadpoles. Over the next two weeks they change dramatically, called metamorphosis. First, tadpoles grow back legs ...