While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

It’s hard to imagine that some creatures on Earth have survived for millions of years. While many species have come and gone, ...

“Beyond urine, whale carcasses also serve as nutrient deposits. When a whale dies, its massive body sinks to the ocean floor, ...

Now, engineers have managed to produce extremely fine fibers inspired by spider silk and hagfish slime. A team of international researchers has used a new 3D-printing technique to create microfibers ...

There are also a few other types of species that can produce silk. The hagfish is an eel-shaped jawless fish that lives at the bottom of the ocean and produces slime/silk consisting of tens of ...

Noah Bressman, a physiologist at Salisbury University in Maryland, studied fish mucus in hagfish, which are notorious for their mucus. But a lot of his other research focuses on amphibious fish ...

DARPA wants space structures that are grown rather than built, and the building blocks for these new structures are living ...

North American Opossum with winter coat. Image via Cody Pope, CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. In the wild ...

In a new call for proposals, DARPA envisions living materials that could self-assemble into antennas, nets to capture debris, ...