In 2023, scientists made a surprising find regarding pangolins. Scientists have long believed that pangolins have eight ...

The earliest ancestors of all backboned animals, including humans, may have viewed the world with four eyes, not just two. The remnants of those extra eyes persist in the human brain today as the ...

Fans of the movie franchise Zootopia know that sloths make the perfect DMV (Department of Mammal Vehicles) workers.

Scientists have documented same-sex behavior in many animals. Learn what it means, how it varies, and why human labels can mislead.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Colorado has had to find the perfect balance between wild animals and humans, but sometimes the worlds collide, and the consequences can be deadly — so, what is Colorado's deadliest animal?

A study suggests that babies are able to distinguish between the different objects they see around them at 2 months old, ...

They sometimes touched their lips together, breathed into one another’s open mouths, or stood on two legs and hugged.

The Queen gets to tell everyone what to do, and she chooses a few males to breed with, we believe,” says Kerns. “However, she can have one of the largest litters of any mammals, over 30 babies at a ...

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

Fiona the sheep made headlines in October 2023 after being rescued from a steep coastal cliff in the Scottish Highlands ...

Benjamin Beck, an authority on "tooling," offers a state-of-the art clarification of this fascinating behavior and why it's essential to know more about the nitty-gritty details.