A scientist chanced upon the specimen at a market in Myanmar. — -- A dinosaur tail preserved in amber has been discovered for the first time ever, researchers announced on Thursday in a paper ...

File shows a robot that uses the kind of motion seen in the mudskipper to move across a granular surface. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 8, 2016 issue of Science, published ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, ...

The 13-foot dinosaur, covered in long spikes fused into its bones, suggests ankylosaurs developed tail weapons 30 million ...

The long structures seen in manta rays and their relatives function as an early warning system, rather than a defensive weapon. By Jack Tamisiea With hornlike facial fins and diamond-shape bodies that ...

Vertebrate morphology exhibits remarkable diversity, reflecting a complex interplay of developmental processes, genetic regulation and environmental pressures. This variation arises from a combination ...

This is an interview with Dan Goldman, associate professor in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 8, 2016 issue of ...