Quick Take Boulenger’s backpack frog females carry fertilized eggs in a dorsal pouch, providing protection and moisture. Embryos undergo direct development, emerging as fully formed froglets without a ...

During brain development, neurons extend long processes called axons. Axons link different areas of the brain and carry ...

You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

A far-reaching education bill that requires students to learn about “human embryological and fetal development,” mandates ...

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

Early in development, many animals pick a team—male or female—based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the ...

The architecture of the body is not encoded as a formal blueprint; rather, it's the tightly orchestrated activation and ...

A research team led by Associate Professor Hirofumi Nishizono and graduate student Masaki Kato from the Research Support Center at the Medical Research Institute of Kanazawa Medical University has ...