A puma in Patagonia shortens its nightly patrol. A wild boar in Poland sticks closer to the forest edge. An elephant in Kenya ...

Scientists tracked people and wildlife during COVID-19 and discovered new ways humans and animals may coexist.

In our newly published research in Science Advances, my student Ben Alessio and I propose a potential mechanism explaining how these distinctive patterns form—that could potentially be applied to ...

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Somewhere in the northern Rockies, a collared gray wolf veers off a ridgeline trail it has used for weeks. Nothing visible ...

In all, 75% of Earth's species went extinct, including the nonavian dinosaurs. So how did some animals ‪—‬ including species ...

Animals have evolved to eat a lot of different things, even stuff that barely passes for food, and it shapes our entire lives from what we look like to where we live. Today, we’ll talk about why being ...

Scott Simon tells tales of how different animals unlock our hearts and deserve respect for their own magnificence and the ...

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One of the most common adaptations seen in the animal kingdom is vision. Nearly 96% of all animals have some kind of eyes and they've proven so evolutionary advantageous that they've evolved multiple ...