As night fell across western Thailand, a “long”-limbed creature emerged from the rocks and took up its perch. Its “large” eyes scanned the landscape, but it wasn’t the only one looking around. Nearby ...

If you’ve got a consistent fitness routine but aren’t seeing the results you want, specifically in your midsection, then you may want to consider adding workouts to lose belly fat. If you and ...

What's more, though is that 'muscles also have a higher metabolic rate than fat,' says Mir Ali, MD, medical director of MemorialCare Surgical Weight Loss Center at Orange Coast Medical Center in ...

Photos show the “tan” coloring of the new species and its “orange” tail. Faint brown stripes run along its sides. Researchers only found one Khpoh slender gecko “despite intensive ...

and a long tail for balance. Researchers have long thought those adaptations started during the last period of the Ice Age. Until this study, the best example of ancient leopard evolution came from a ...

The commission recommends the inclusion of body fat measurements and the presence of existing health issues -- and cautions against using BMI alone as an individual measure of health. The proposal ...

Last month, the agency updated the definitions of the term “healthy” for labeling on foods, which tightened limits on saturated fat, sugar and salt in food. In August, the F.D.A. issued ...

A new study by Weill Cornell Medicine and the Boyce Thompson Institute reveals that the body produces a molecule, BA-MCY, which counteracts gut microbes’ signals to regulate bile acid production, ...

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The researchers have also managed to reduce the weight of obese mice just by having them transplanted with fat without that protein. Obesity is the result of either excessive food intake or ...

Lemurs, lizards, whales — all are famed for their tails in some way. But which animal has the longest tail of all? In proportion to their bodies, grass lizards have the longest tails of any ...