Discover examples of sea life and see how they move underwater in this KS1 Science video on marine animals for primary ...

Animals from different species often rely on surprisingly sophisticated communication to work together, whether finding food, ...

Beyond factors like genetics and environment, animal personality is also shaped by something more fundamental: the species ...

Being a loner isn’t un-herd of for these four-legged seniors. New research shows that it is in an animal’s nature to isolate as they age — but unlike the known detriments for humans, breaking away ...

Life was pretty nice during the Ediacaran, so the need for sex was rather limited,” Emily Mitchell, a paleozoologist at the ...

Coconut crabs are massive. Up to three feet in diameter, they scuttle across remote tropical islands in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean, cracking open coconuts like they’re made of butter, eating ...

Groundbreaking study shows machine learning can decode emotions in seven ungulate species. A game-changer for animal welfare? Can artificial intelligence help us understand what animals feel? A ...

Sound science requires animal subjects to be physically, physiologically, and behaviorally unharmed. Accordingly, publication of methods that contravenes animal welfare principles risks perpetuating ...

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...

Fast animals get plenty of attention for their incredible feats of speed. But what about animals that move at a slower pace? "We definitely are programmed to think that speed is good," said James ...