Animals

Insect Smart Homes Could Help Save One Critical Creature From Climate Peril

Did Raccoon Dogs Spread Covid-19? What the New Genetic Reports Really Tell Us

Ants Rely On A Unique Skill To Find Friends Among Trillions of Foes

How Poisonous Are Blowfish? A Fish Biologist Reveals the Truth About The Deadly Delicacy

One Essential Ecosystem Is Rapidly Disappearing from Earth, Study Reveals

These Tool-Wielding Monkeys Shed Light on a Huge Evolutionary Mystery

Bees and Babies Have One Important Thing in Common

This Is the Most Complex Reconstruction of a Brain Ever — And It's Tiny

Why Bringing Grey Wolves Back to Colorado Offers Surprising Benefits

Coral and Other Marine Animals Have a Surprising Tie to the Moon

5,000-year-old Skeletons May Be World’s First Equestrians, Study Finds

Flamingos’ Social Lives are Full of Cliques, New Study Reveals

Bear and Lion Attacks May Become More Common — A New Paper Reveals Why

Insects That Fling Pee Out of Their Butts Could Inspire Future Technology

Can Cats Tell Time? Yes, But It's Complicated

Camel and Shark Blood Could Help Treat Elusive Human Diseases

A New Drug Could Help People With a Rare Disease Grow Longer Limbs

Forever Chemicals May Endanger Hundreds of Iconic Species Worldwide

Antidepressants Help People — But May Have a Negative Ecological Effect

Cows Could Hasten the Demise the UK and Ireland’s Secret Rainforests

Lab-Bred Mosquitos Could Slow the Spread of a Deadly Human Disease

New Zealand’s Plan to Tax Cow Burps Misses a Crucial Point

Is Bird Flu A Danger To Humans? Here’s What Scientists Know Right Now

Biologists Just Unlocked How Octopuses Hunt With Deadly Precision

Insect Bites Reveal the Origins of an Elusive Plant Behavior

Birds Use One Surprising Survival Tactic — And It Could Benefit Us All

Pigeons and Computers Have One Surprising Thing in Common, Study Reveals

A Biotech Company Wants to Resurrect an Iconic Species — Will It Work?

Scientists mapped the brain circuitry involved in pleasurable touch in mice

The Plague Is Still Here — And It Could Infect Your Cat

Study: Some Vikings Brought Horses and Dogs To Britain

Look! Five New Snake Species Discovered in a Habitat Devastated by Mining

How can I protect my pet from coyotes? Experts explain the best defense

Clean energy farms may endanger birds and bats — the remains can reveal a solution

Lab-grown chicken could hit store shelves soon — here's how it tastes

Look: Ancient mammal shows how modern animals could survive climate change

Look: Pterosaur ate like a whale with a mouth full of hooked teeth

Elephants could be key to saving the planet — here’s why

Plague study complicates a commonly held belief about the Black Death

Cannibal insects, carnivorous plants: 12 stunning shots from a close-up photography competition

Almost half of land animals will soon face extreme heat — here's why that's so scary

Why can’t I understand my dog? Recent research may offer an answer

3D-printed “organs” could lead to better drugs

Is your dog right or left-pawed? One factor could determine their dominant hand

'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' could be the reboot the franchise needs

Listen: Dolphins "scream" to each other over human-made noise pollution

One creature’s live fast, live long lifestyle may reveal how to slow aging

NASA deploys SPORT CubeSat and more: Understand the world through 8 images

Can dogs and cats get a cold? An animal expert explains how to protect your pet

Medieval manuscripts reveal why humans loved cats — with one big exception