Nature does not reward politeness, and being a male or female doesn't change that rule either. Across the animal kingdom, the ...

From strategic hunters to master problem solvers, intelligence in the wild is more impressive than you might think. In this A ...

As fewer people choose to pair up, let alone marry, it could be that our species’ mating patterns are moving closer to the natural order, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt ...

Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize ...

Blue animals are far rarer than other colorful species, and the reason lies in biology rather than chance. Unlike reds or yellows, blue coloration is difficult to produce using pigments found in ...

We in the South love our animals. Many of us come from agricultural backgrounds , where animals were raised for provision and care of them was essenti ...

The female red-sided garter snake, a species native to Manitoba, Canada, has no shortage of potential lovers. According to Christopher Friesen at the University of Wollongong in Australia, anywhere ...

An elephant’s trunk looks rugged, but it is also one of the most sensitive touch organs in the animal kingdom. New research reveals that this sensitivity is partly powered by whiskers whose material ...

The gaur, found in southern and southeast Asia, is the largest of these cattle, and a large gaur bull sometimes weighs as ...

Butterfly populations are declining at a rapid rate worldwide. Studies show that the total abundance of species in the United ...

New research in the Strait of Gibraltar captured dozens of vocalizations from an endangered subpopulation of killer whales ...

It’s not considered polite to talk about it, but we all do it. Some of us are in and out so quickly that nobody would even ...