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 ...

Scientists discover webbed feet in land animals, challenging common assumptions. This trait, initially for swimming, also ...

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!" ...

Check out Steam Next Fest Gameplay for Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite. Hunt, Flee, Scavenge and Thrive in a living ecosystem. Choose from 100+ Evolutions and Specialisations for ...

Some animals are born with horns while others shed their antlers each year. But what's the evolutionary purpose?

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

Some wasps and frogs evolved similar chemicals that cause pain in predators, even though the species are not closely related.

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

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 ...