A bull elephant in musth on a field encounter is hard to mistake. Dark fluid from his temporal glands stains the sides of his ...

A citizen science project in Switzerland shows how underwear and teabags decompose in different soil types, offering clues ...

Ocean lovers can watch the world unfold below the waves from wherever they are via the Scripps Pier underwater camera.

Coyotes make use of the city’s transit network, showing that, in this case, wildlife has actively sought to enter and be part of our urban lives.

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest non-polar desert and one of the driest places on the planet. But in August ...

As darkness falls across Harar, people gather to welcome the city’s carnivorous visitors and see them get their fill.

But researchers are faced with a problem: during the polar winter, Antarctica plunges into darkness, 24 hours a day. Now, for ...

The oldest known polar bear fossils hail from Svalbard and northern Norway and are dated at 115,000–130,000 years old, before ...

Some animals just visit caves – but some live their entire lives in the dark and damp of these underground habitats. These ...

Watching domestic cats can offer some surprising insights into the lives of their wild relatives. Find out more about the ...

But there could be one exception. Cuban boas hunt bats as they fly through the narrow entrances of their roosting caves. The ...

“Like bones or other teeth in the animal kingdom, the narwhal tusk is a complex composite material whose structure extends from tiny nanoscale building blocks to the visible form of the entire tooth,” ...