Venom is one of nature’s most effective (and fascinating) survival tools. Across the world, a wide range of animals have ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

According to a study by an international team of researchers, summarized by the Oxford University Press, Apennine brown bears ...

From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

Same-sex behavior is widespread in primates and may help strengthen social bonds and improve survival under challenging ...

A pet cow has learned to scratch herself with a broom, showing creative problem-solving skills that make it harder to ignore ...

School of Biological Sciences, Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States The Cambrian radiation (~539 Ma) generated most animal body plans in ~20 million years.

Bite force might sound like a simple measure of how hard an animal can clamp its jaws, but it actually offers insight into feeding, hunting, and survival. In basic terms, bite force is the maximum ...

With more than 55% of the world’s population now living in cities, the frantic pace of urban life is changing life on a genetic level. Through rapid evolution, we are seeing the formation of ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal’s body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...

Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal ...