It’s about studying the intelligence of movement. Local scientists who built basic bots say they’re learning how animals evolved. And that knowledge, they say, may have deeper ...

Animals are noisy. And their noises can travel a long way. But making sounds can be a double-edged sword: it can help them communicate, sometimes over long distances, but it can also reveal them to ...

Have you ever wondered why moose in Alaska are larger than their southern relatives? Have you considered why many Arctic mammals appear bulkier than species living closer to the equator? There’s a ...

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!" ...

During the age of dinosaurs, some species became stranded on isolated islands. Limited food and restricted space forced these animals to evolve in unusual ways. Over time, many dinosaurs that once ...

The dinosaur lineage has provided us with some of the most truly terrifying animals to ever walk the planet. But we eventually learned that all birds are actually theropod dinosaurs. Looking at ...

The discovery was led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities scientist Peter Makovicky along with Argentine paleontologist Sebastian ...

Contrary to prevailing belief, an evolutionary analysis finds no evidence that most viruses with epidemic or pandemic potential that jumped from animals to people were shaped by selection in a lab or ...

Most pandemic viruses that have jumped from animals to humans do not show signs of special adaptations to infect people, except the 1977 influenza outbreak, which was likely “sparked by a laboratory ...

A groundbreaking Trinity College Dublin study reveals that some animals process visual information more than three times faster than humans.

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins.

Paleontologists from the University of Bucharest and Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest have discovered a new species of herbivorous dinosaur in Romania’s Hațeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark. The ...