In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an underlying ...

Animals of the same species don't always look the same. From birds with different beak shapes to mammals that vary in size or ...

The rainbow looks different to a human than it does to a honeybee or a zebra finch. That’s because these animals can see colors that we humans simply can’t. Now scientists have developed a new video ...

What is the 'most Canadian' animal? Spoiler: it's not the beaver, or the moose. A new study ranks species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the ...

Cooperative hunting, resource sharing, and using the same signals to communicate the same information -- these are all examples of cultural sharing that have been observed between distinct animal ...

A large international team of scientists sequenced the genomes of 151 Portuguese men o’ war from across their range throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans (Figure 1b) and discovered these ...