November 1, 2024 • For years, we've been asking, "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" Maybe what we should have been asking is, "Which came first: the frog or the tadpole?" A new paper in ...

Oct. 15, 2024 — A study in the Cascade Range in Oregon of a tiny, elusive skunk found the animal can cover more ground than deer and is sensitive to climate change, ... Bonobos May Be More ...

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter I’ve been a stand-up and improv comic for 30 years, and I know for a fact ...

2024 — Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing ... Oceanographers Record the Largest ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris ...

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It's a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants ...

Eating animals poses two moral problems. Is it wrong in principle to raise and kill animals so that human beings can eat meat and fish? Does it stop being wrong if the processes involved are ...

Animal behavior research is particularly relevant to the study of human behavior when it comes to the preservation of a species, or how an animal’s behavior helps it survive. The behavior of ...

Some of the world’s top animal scientists got together to talk about leadership traits in the animal kingdom and published a study in Trends in Ecology and Evolution that explored what qualities ...

With quirky original characters as well as plushies based on the biggest franchises, there’s a Squishmallow out there for everyone. I can also confirm Squishmallows are ridiculously soft and ...

People wonder why I don’t feel accepted.” “I feel like a zoo animal,” she reported a few months later. Rachel (third from left) and her all-male Crane Mechanic team in 2015. (Provided by ...