Life

A study finds that baby mammals dream about the world they are about to experience to prepare their senses.

Australian parrots have worked out how to open trash bins, and the trick is spreading across Sydney.

A new study tested to what extent dogs can sense human deception.

Evolution proves to be just about as ingenious as Nikola Tesla

The ethical debate over zoos is going to grow louder. There might be a solution that involves robots.

Eight-eyed arachnids can tell when an object’s movement is not quite right.

When facing a predator, single cells sometimes unite to defend themselves, paving the way for more complex multicellular life forms to evolve.

One man studied apes for 50 years. He says nature isn’t as cruel as you think.

The opening of jars, while impressive and often used to illustrate octopus intelligence, is not their most remarkable ability.

These bizarre mollusks have the ability to regenerate their bodies and to absorb other organisms’ attributes.

Evolutionary success is not about the number of one’s children, but one’s grandchildren: the children need to survive and pass on their genes.

These distant cousins of starfish live on sea floors around the globe.

Traditional Chinese medicine and Vietnamese culture are driving the pangolin to extinction.

Metal-like materials have been discovered in a very strange place.

That’s as fast as a bullet train in Japan.

Researchers develop a fungus that kills mites that contribute to honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder.

Some wild animals thrive near humans, but only up to a point.

Life finds a way — in this case, by smelling like death.

The Vertebrate Genomes Project may spell good news for the kakapo and the vaquita.

Have you ever heard a tree scream?

Seawater is raising salt levels in coastal woodlands along the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain, from Maine to Florida.

A simple trick allowed marine biologists to prove a long-held suspicion.

Roughly the size of a thumbnail, this newly discovered toadlet has some anatomical surprises.

The size of rabbits and hares has long been evolutionarily constrained by competitors roughly their size.

A study from Carnegie Mellon University tracks the travels of tarantulas since the Cretaceous period.

A newly discovered coronavirus — but not the one that causes COVID-19 — has made some dogs very sick.

The ‘Monkeydactyl’ was a flying reptile that evolved highly specialized adaptations in the Mesozoic Era.

The lush biodiversity of South America’s rainforests is rooted in one of the most cataclysmic events that ever struck Earth.

Ultimately, this is a fight between a giant reptile and a giant primate.

Snakes and mammals share common genetic building blocks necessary for producing venom.