Thanks to new research, scientists are closer to understanding how “immortal” aquatic animals called hydra regrow their lost heads. Hydra are inch-long freshwater creatures that resemble a floating ...

Researchers pinpointed the genetic machinery behind some of these tiny creatures’ amazing powers of regeneration. By Sam Jones In rivers and streams across the globe lives a tube-shaped carnivore. It ...

Hydra are small, invertebrate, predatory animals that live in water. They're tubular, radially symmetric and up to 10 mm long, with a head (mostly a mouth), a single, adhesive foot, and tentacles. In ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution maps out for the first time how Hydra, which are a group of small aquatic animals, can regenerate their own heads by changing the way that their genes are ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Hydras are a group of small aquatic animals capable of regenerating their heads, the mechanism for which has been uncovered in a new paper published in ...

In Greek and Roman mythology, the dreaded Hydra was an insurmountable challenge; no matter how many heads were cut off, two more would instantly sprout in its place. This same sense of perpetual ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, maps out for the first time how Hydra, which are a group of small aquatic animals, can regenerate their own heads by ...