Most humans who echolocate are blind or vision-impaired and use the skill to go about their daily activities. Some make ...

Humanity has spent decades building seismographs, GPS networks, and satellite monitoring systems in the hope of predicting ...

A viral cat video from the Japan Earthquake 2026 has revived the question of whether animals can detect earthquakes before ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

When biologist Adam Hartstone-Rose watched zoo animals during a solar eclipse, he expected them to shrug it off like a passing storm. What he observed instead raised an uncomfortable question about ...

Conflict over the resources all animals need exerts a powerful evolutionary force on a host of social species, including various primates, meerkats ( Suricata suricatta ), several bird species, and ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the Moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference stems ...

Four different animals are now known to spread cancer between individuals. Here’s why humans aren’t one of them.

Photograph of three male zebra finches (Taeniopygia castanotis), whose mating calls were used as part of the study. Credit: Raina Fan. The bright colors of butterfly wings, the sweet aromas of flowers ...