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 ...

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Lowcountry animal shelters are offering free adoptions for all animals as they attempt to solve an overcrowding crisis that is plaguing several locations. From playful ...

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 ...

But what about the rest of the animal kingdom–how do non-human animals understand and respond to death? The answer depends on species, individual, and circumstance. “There’s a wide variety ...

As behavioral ecologists, we are interested in how adverse experiences early in life can affect animals' behavior, including the kinds of decisions they make and the way they interact with the ...

This past spring, Harvard University evolutionary biologist Joanna Wolfe, Ph.D., was in Okinawa, Japan, gathering information for her research on carcinization, or the study of how animals take on ...

From the arid deserts of the Negev to the lush forests of Galilee, Israel is home to a variety of unusual wild animals that thrive in its diverse ecosystems. Located at the crossroads of Europe ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...

Wild animals also experience adversity. Although their negative experiences are easy to dismiss as part of life in the wild, they still have lifelong repercussions – just like traumatic events ...

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 ...

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 classic formula where you duke it out against ...