Animals

Science

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

ByJoanna Thompson
News

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

ByMiriam Fauzia
Science

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

ByThe Conversation, Stephen Ferguson and Laurence Zwiebel
Check, please!

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

ByElana Spivack
Science

One Essential Ecosystem Is Rapidly Disappearing from Earth, Study Reveals

ByTara Yarlagadda
Science

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

ByJennifer Walter
Science

Bees and Babies Have One Important Thing in Common

ByJennifer Walter
Science

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

ByElana Spivack
Science

Why Bringing Grey Wolves Back to Colorado Offers Surprising Benefits

ByThe Conversation and Christopher J. Preston
Science

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

ByVirat Markandeya and Knowable Magazine
Science

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

BySarah Wells
Science

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

ByElana Spivack
Science

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

ByTara Yarlagadda
Science

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

ByJennifer Walter
Pet Science

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

ByTara Yarlagadda
Health

Camel and Shark Blood Could Help Treat Elusive Human Diseases

ByChristina Szalinski and Knowable Magazine
Science

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

ByJoanna Thompson
Science

Forever Chemicals May Endanger Hundreds of Iconic Species Worldwide

ByTara Yarlagadda
Health

Antidepressants Help People — But May Have a Negative Ecological Effect

ByThe Conversation and William Andrew Thompson
Science

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

ByThe Conversation and Emma Garnett
Science

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

ByUndark and Marta Zaraska
Sustainability

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

ByKevin Trenberth and The Conversation
Health

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

ByMiriam Fauzia
Science

Biologists Just Unlocked How Octopuses Hunt With Deadly Precision

ByAbe Musselman
Science

Insect Bites Reveal the Origins of an Elusive Plant Behavior

ByJennifer Walter
Science

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

ByThe Conversation and Todd M. Freeberg
Science

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

ByJennifer Walter
Science

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

ByMolly Glick
Mind and Body

Scientists mapped the brain circuitry involved in pleasurable touch in mice

ByElana Spivack
Pet Science

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

ByTara Yarlagadda
science

Study: Some Vikings Brought Horses and Dogs To Britain

ByKiona Smith
Animals

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

ByRobin Bea
Pet Science

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

ByTara Yarlagadda
Science

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

ByEmma Foehringer Merchant and Undark
HORIZONS

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

ByJohn Wenz
Science

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

ByJennifer Walter
Chomp chomp

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

ByJennifer Walter
Climate Crisis

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

ByTara Yarlagadda
Opinion

Plague study complicates a commonly held belief about the Black Death

BySamuel Cohn, Philip Slavin and The Conversation
breathtaking

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

ByJennifer Walter
Planet in Peril

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

ByTara Yarlagadda
Ruff Ruff

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

ByTara Yarlagadda
Innovation

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

ByThe Conversation and Chengpeng Chen
Science

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

ByDeborah Wells and The Conversation
Chimpan A to Chimpan Z

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

ByDais Johnston
Turn it down!

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

ByJennifer Walter
Opinion

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

ByThe Reader and Steven N. Austad
This week in science

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

ByRobin Bea
Science

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

ByJacqueline Boyd and The Conversation
Culture

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

ByThe Conversation and Madeleine S. Killacky