animals
Letting nature’s expert engineers lead the way.
Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here’s why.
Once numbering just 27 birds, the global population of California condors is now in the hundreds.
Hybrid animals emere when two different species from the same family reproduce. For many years, the kunga’s lineage was just another genetic mystery.
Certain types of dogs seem to be more discerning than others, however.
With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.
In movies and TV shows, aliens look like pointy-eared humans. Is this realistic? If evolution is predictable, then it very well might be.
From 1974 to 1978, the chimps of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania were at war with each other, the first time conservationists saw chimps engage in calculated, cold-blooded killing.
Whether or not life exists elsewhere in the Universe, we can be assured of one thing: We are the only human beings in the cosmos.
Tusks suddenly became a liability, even though in natural circumstances, tusks are very useful.
What was this mammoth tusk doing on the ocean floor 150 miles from land?
Life largely owes its existence to this equation. Be sure to hug your house plant today.
Pando, which is Latin for “I spread,” is a single organism spanning some 106 acres.
A new snake becomes Instagram famous after its accidental discovery by a graduate student going on a nature walk in northern India.
Genetic profiles of many dog breeds appear as if siblings mated.
Forget little green men: These scientists say we should be more worried about little green germs.
The human brain makes a striking deviation from the normal building plan.
Missing link? More like the weakest link.
Despite the wide diversity of spider species, most orb-weavers seem to follow the same playbook when building their webs.
Social conflicts can leave molecular marks on animals, according to recent research on the ant species Harpegnathos saltator.
Virgin birth – which involves the development of an unfertilised egg – has preoccupied humans for aeons. And although it can’t happen in mammals, it does seem to be possible in […]
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
A 12-year study shows that these large lemurs have a sophisticated sense of rhythm.
The list includes eleven species of birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat, and a plant from the mint family.
A recent discovery pushes back the date on when dinosaurs first engaged in social behavior.
Linguistic laws are remarkably versatile and have applications in ecology, microbiology, epidemiology, demographics, and geography.
Long assumed to be a devoted vegetarian, ancient sloths were fine with some meat.
The microscopic tardigrades are an elusive species. Fossils are rare, but each new find adds a piece to their unsolved evolutionary puzzle.
From forecasting stock prices to diagnosing disease, Swarm AI enables better group decisions.