Beyond their dam-constructing skills, beavers are intelligent, territorial, and tough. From their iron-layered teeth to the ...

Majorca mastiff or majorcan bulldog. Pet animals. Six month old. Image via depositphotos. Dogs have an upper lid, a lower lid, and a third lid known as a nictitating membrane, or “haw,” which helps ...

Cats have been our beloved companions for thousands of years, yet they continue to amaze us with their mysterious and unique qualities. From their remarkable physical attributes to their intriguing ...

These include some obvious mechanical activities such as endocytosis, cell motility and membrane resealing, but also others, such as replication and transcription. Taking the motor proteins as an ...

Membrane proteins are proteins found in cell membranes, either at the surface or on intracellular organelles. Integral membrane proteins such as receptors and ion channels span the membrane ...

They have unique nose and ear valves to keep water out. Their eyes have nictitating membranes that protect their eyes like built in goggles. A scaled tail works like a rudder when swimming.

You may have heard that shark attacks are on the rise in Florida, but what does that mean? Are sharks attacking more people in Florida than ever before? Many sharks circle up in the water. Image by ...

This study examined the important question of how neurons code temporal information across the hippocampus, dorsal striatum, and orbitofrontal cortex. Using a behavioral task in the rat that requires ...

Animal contextual fear conditioning (CFC) models are the most-studied forms used to explore the neural substances of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In addition to the well-recognized ...

National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, 29 Wangjiang Road, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, P. R. China College of Biomedical Engineering ...

Latent inhibition refers to the retardation in learning an association between a target stimulus and an outcome when the target stimulus has been pre-exposed in the absence of consequences. The ...