When people talk about saving wildlife, they often focus on numbers. Conversations center on how many deer live in a forest, ...

Fast-moving animals process visual information at higher speeds, reshaping how they hunt, escape predators, and experience time.

These flies lay eggs on open wounds, and their larvae feed on live flesh. And a case was just stopped in a Florida quarantine ...

New humpback whale study shows older male whales were more likely to become fathers and younger males were less likely to do ...

Close observations and studies have shown that many frogs use their eyeballs to help push food down their throat!

The Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. Some areas get very little rain each year. The soil is salty, and in some places it even contains harmful elements like arsenic.

Even in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are thriving in surprising diversity. Scientists found ...

We report on a new study from France, which indicates that dogs and cats may help to spread invasive flatworms.

Female bees and wasps are the real defenders. Only females can sting, because stingers are modified egg-laying organs. Males do nothing in defence. Females guard nests, food, and colonies with extreme ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

Baby dinosaurs weren’t coddled like lion cubs or elephant calves—they were more like prehistoric latchkey kids. New research ...