Picture an “animal” in your mind right now. What does it look like? A dog? A lion? Maybe a sloth, pangolin, naked mole-rat, or even just a human? There’s a good chance that you imagined a mammal, ...

In the penultimate episode of Crash Course Zoology, we use everything we've learned so far to try and figure out what a "species" even is anyway! As you'll see, the incredible diversity of animals ...

Some animals look almost exactly the same at first glance But many of them are actually completely different species Small differences in shape color or behavior reveal the truth Scientists use these ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

Some animals are capable of cooperating with members of other species. An interdisciplinary team explores the cognitive underpinnings of such cross-species collaborations, opening up a new perspective ...

The scientists analyzed nearly 71,000 wild animal species — from corals to reptiles, insects to mammals — assessed by the IUCN Red List and categorized them according to climate-related threats they ...