Because there are so many animals this year, Cecil said the auction will be broken into two days. Those who won first and second place prizes will present at the Sale of Champions at 4 p.m. Friday ...

When running, for example, the legs of small animals are in contact with the ground for only very brief moments during each step, which constrains how much energy each stride can release. To address ...

Within each group of animals, there's a remarkable range of sizes exhibited by its members. This is especially true for the vertebrates — fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals.

Small animals with big impact Date: March 8, 2019 Source: University of Gothenburg Summary: Copepods, the world's most common animal, release unique substances into the oceans.

There are good reasons why invertebrates are as small as they are – ecology and environment keep them in check. But there was a time when insects were as big as crows. What happened?

And so baby ocean animals, like marine larvae, are very sensitive to these small changes in ocean acidification. And they've sort of become the bellwethers or the canaries in the coal mine for how ...

Bacteria collage. Wikimedia Commons. Large animals tend to take longer to grow and reach maturity, so they reproduce more slowly.While mice have a short generation time (how long it takes a ...