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As their name suggests, carrion beetles eat dead animals. These insects also lay ... You might have seen photos of this surprising pairing traveling together in the night or walking side by ...

Looking at pictures of animals is a surefire way to brighten your day. The Important Animal Images Facebook page is the best ...

The rumor mill about immigrants attacking household pets got its start in thinly sourced anecdotes shared at government ...

The late children’s book illustrator Jerry Pinkney won the Caldecott Medal for his book The Lion and the Mouse. Now his artwork and sketches for that book will be archived at the Eric Carle Museum of ...

In H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novel, “The Invisible Man,” the protagonist invents a serum that makes the cells in his ...

In H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novel, “The Invisible Man,” the protagonist invents a serum that makes the cells in his ...

Seeing Through: Scientists Use Food Dye to Render Mouse Skin Transparent By Ernie ... organs as well as the function and movement of the animals' digestive tract. “It takes a few minutes for ...

A food dye that helps give certain sodas and snacks their hallmark orange hue renders mouse skin almost completely ... bioengineer at Stanford University. Animal flesh is a matrix of different ...

In a stunning result, researchers were able to see, with the naked eye, through a living mouse’s skin to its internal organs, simply by applying common light-absorbing molecules.

While technologies like CT scans, X-rays, MRIs, and microscopy can provide insights, the images are ... The mouse's beating ...

Washing away any remaining solution reversed the process, which did not harm the animals. The mice’s fur ... we were able to achieve transparency of the mouse skin.” Once the dye had ...