Anthony Pagano, assistant professor in the Department of Medical Sciences at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University and his colleagues Samuel Márquez from SUNY Downstate ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

Upright and standing tall, folded or curled, cat ears come in a variety of sizes and shapes. Despite dramatic variations in appearance between some breeds, all cat ears function the same way. Ears can ...

Feb. 2 (UPI) --To hunt successfully, cheetahs must keep their head still and eyes focused on the movements of their prey while running at high speed. How does the fastest animal in the world do it?

Leaping through the air with ease and spinning in place like tops, ballet dancers are visions of the human body in action at its most spectacular and controlled. Their brains, too, appear to be ...

Dog ears are made up of 18 muscles (vs. the human ear with six) and have considerably longer ear canals, which help them hone their sense of hearing. While this means dogs are vastly better at ...