Using a novel experimental setup involving a tilting platform, high-speed videography and mathematical modelling, scientists have demonstrated how mice swing their tails like a whip to maintain ...

However, rats are larger and heavier, while mice are smaller and have longer, more hairy tails. Mice ears seem large compared to their body size, while a rat’s ears will seem balanced with its ...

Humans do not have tails, but do we have “what it takes” for a tail? Hens don’t have teeth, but they have the genes for it. With atavism, it is as if our genomes serve as archives of our ...