A team of paleontologists affiliated with several institutions in Argentina, working with a colleague from the U.K., has ...

MAMMALS come in all sizes from the largest of all, blue whales, to the smallest like the Least shrew. Whales are entirely ...

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

Cell types in animals evolved by step-wise diversification ... we will be able to infer the evolutionary history of cell type diversification for entire organ systems, such as the central nervous ...

Bronze Age life changed radically around 1500 BC in Central Europe. New research reveals diets narrowed, millet was ...

While Animal Kingdom is a work of fiction, it was inspired by real events. The film that launched the TV series was loosely ...

It’s not just humans running for office anymore. A town in Vermont is going to the dogs — literally. For the first time in ...

There is some science behind the lighthearted post, because music—particularly classical music—is proven to have a soothing effect on dogs. Research by the Scottish Society for the Prevention of ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

Elephants are frequently used in outdoor festivals in India, but the overwhelming stress can quickly cause the animals to ...

This is a potentially valuable modeling study on sequence generation in the hippocampus in a variety of behavioral contexts. While the scope of the model is ambitious, its presentation is incomplete ...

Almost 400 scientists from around the world came together to understand the movements of large marine mammals, using 30 years ...