People love a tidy villain, so sharks get cast as the ocean’s hitmen, while orcas get treated like spooky geniuses with ...

Horses and People' licenses an online horse welfare assessment course to the University of New England. Amy Lykins has ...

Meet the European hedgehog ( Erinaceus europaeus ), small nocturnal insectivores that turn into a spiny ball of death when they feel threatened. Unfortunately, the mammals are rapidly declining.

Michael Pollan explores theories of consciousness in animals, plants and machines, examining the “hard problem” of subjective experience in his new book “A World Appears”.

I worry that at the time when they should be developing their own voices, they’re being told they don’t need to bother. AI writes for us, reads for us, thinks for us. It replaces our voice with its ...

Biologists attached tiny recording devices that looked like mini backpacks to bats. What they found revealed a surprising ...

Two mass strandings involving hundreds of dolphins in Argentina probably happened because the pods were being hunted by orcas ...

Scientists say when bats start circling gardens after sunset, they are responding to something happening in the environment below.

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

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Finding bats in the attic or under roof tiles is no homeowner's idea of fun. But Florida's endangered bonneted bats have few natural options left. With a dwindling number of large, old trees with ...

Proposed changes to the federal Marine Mammal Regulations would increase the distance boats are allowed to approach southern resident killer whales from 200 metres to 1,000 metres.