On a termite mound somewhere in the Limpopo bush, a dwarf mongoose hauls itself up onto its hind legs, scans the scrub, and starts to sing. It is a small, chirruping watchman’s song, the sound of a se...

Wild baboons organize their travel formations not to avoid predators or compete for food, but simply to stay close to their friends, according to new research that challenges decades of assumptions ab...

Have you ever comforted a friend who was upset? It turns out our closest ape relatives do exactly the same thing – and in ways that challenge what scientists have believed for decades. A groundbreakin...

Not all orangutan mothers parent alike, according to pioneering research that tracked wild Sumatran orangutans for 15 years. The study, published Tuesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, documen...

High in the Sierra Nevada, a mountain chickadee drops onto an aluminum frame strung with eight identical feeders, hesitates, hops to the wrong one, then the wrong one again, before finally finding the...

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Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype

Off the coast of Dominica, in water deep enough to swallow a skyscraper, a female sperm whale draws breath and dives. Somewhere below, she clicks. Not randomly. Not reflexively. She clicks in sequence...

Cutting-edge imaging technology has uncovered that all living organisms emit an extremely faint light invisible to the naked eye, with patterns that significantly differ between life and death. These ...

The nurse sharks swimming through Miami’s glowing coastal waters at night aren’t getting much sleep. Their blood tells the story: melatonin levels suppressed, circadian rhythms disrupted, all because the city never really goes dark. For the first time, researchers have measured the hormone in wild sharks and found that artificial light is throwing their biological ... Read more

Scientists have discovered that cuttlefish use distinct arm movements to communicate with each other, adding another dimension to these already remarkable marine creatures. Researchers from the École ...

Our brains grew as our thumbs stretched. That is the striking conclusion of a new study in Communications Biology, which finds that primates with longer thumbs also tend to have larger brains. Using d...

The dromedary camel has spent millions of years being battered by bacteria, viruses and parasites across some of the harshest terrain on Earth. It rarely loses. While sheep and goats in the same Omani pastures fall to foot-and-mouth disease, tetanus and other common infections, camels shrug them off with an equanimity that has long puzzled ... Read more

The bones were so small that at first glance they looked like they might belong to juveniles. But Fidel Torcida Fernández-Baldor of the Dinosaur Museum of Salas de los Infantes reckoned otherwise. Scattered across the Burgos Province site in northern Spain, the delicate fossils represented at least five individuals—all adults, all impossibly tiny for dinosaurs. ... Read more

Remove a queen from a tropical paper wasp colony and the nest goes to pieces, more or less immediately. Aggression rates jump tenfold within 24 hours. Workers that had spent their days foraging for food drop what they’re doing and start fighting instead, biting, grappling, stinging. Multiple females compete simultaneously for the reproductive vacancy, and ... Read more

Scientists have discovered that cuttlefish use distinct arm movements to communicate with each other, adding another dimension to these already remarkable marine creatures. Researchers from the École ...