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 ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — An AI model could accurately identify goats in pain, opening up better treatment opportunities for animals and non-verbal ... New Study Maps Dramatic 100-Million-Year Explosion in ...

Seeing through one eye or many, in technicolour or black and white, few animals experience the world as we do. By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

Alcohol — and animals that love to consume it — is far more common in the natural world than scientists once believed, a study has found. Because ethanol — the kind of alcohol that forms ...

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 ...

Check out how we test and review games here Merge a classic multiplayer brawler with furry pals, physics-based chaos, and a slew of battle arenas and you get Party Animals, a cuddly take on the ...

Banksy unveiled his ninth animal artwork in as many days this morning, the latest in a series that has delighted Londoners. The elusive street artist confirmed that the mural of a gorilla ...

Rock art in southern Africa might depict long-extinct animals that walked the Earth 260 million years ago. A new paper argues that we should consider these images a form of Indigenous paleontology.

A deep-sea submersible found worms and snails living in cavities below the sea floor — the first time animals have been discovered in such habitats. The creatures may have been pushed into their ...

Nov. 8, 2024 — Tool use isn't unique to humans. Chimpanzees use sticks as tools. Dolphins, crows, and elephants are known for their tool-use abilities, too. Now a report highlights elephants ...