Recently, a nanny on my team shared a conversation she had with the mother of a 2-year-old she cares for. The nightly struggle? Her son flat-out refused to eat dinner unless his parents sat down and ...

The beach looked as though someone had scattered hundreds of tiny brains across the sand. These unusual sea beans, known as monkey's brain sea beans, immediately caught my attention. Some still had ...

Toxic algal blooms are sickening sea lions along California's coast, prompting hundreds of reports and dozens of rescue ...

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A tufted gray langur strokes a grizzled giant squirrel in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. Senthi Aathavan Senthilverl via Grueter et al., Primates, 2025, under CC BY 4.0 When a mouse wandered into the ...

Toxic algae is sickening sea lions along California’s coast, driving hundreds of public reports and a surge in rescue calls.

For thousands of years, Mexican howler monkeys have inhabited the lush rainforest canopy of what is now Los Tuxtlas—a 155,000-acre UNESCO biosphere reserve in the eastern state of Veracruz, 325 miles ...

For a long time, charming stories of monkeys playing with or caring for other animals were thought to be mere anecdotes—a bit of fun at the edge of the animal kingdom. But a recent study by a ...

While wild ducks still consume plants during the warming season, there’s a heavier reliance on animal-based protein (bugs, in ...

In farm country, a whitetail deer’s diet largely revolves around crops. They target most cereal grains and other common ...

Scientists estimate that sharks were swimming the seas some 190 million years before dinosaurs roamed the earth, and they’re ...