The Gulf of Khambhat, particularly off Dahej, has occasionally reported sightings of dolphins, including the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin and the bottlenose dolphin. These species are indicators of a ...

By listening in on their nightly hunts, scientists discovered that small, fringe-lipped bats are unexpectedly able to efficiently take down prey nearly their own size.

Are any plants and animals evolving backwards by incorporating traits that they lost long ago? Joseph R., New Bedford, MA.

Bowhead Whale. Image by Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Hunting, the eternal ...

The more we watch animals, the more we learn about their complex lives. Here are three famous examples of animal deception. The killdeer is a plover bird found in the Americas living on shorelines. It ...

Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some way, changing how we understand the natural world. For the first time, ...

Deep underwater and high in the night sky, creatures use sound to see what eyes cannot. Through evolutionary biology and acoustic science, this episode reveals how echolocation emerged in bats, whales ...

Echolocation lets animals use sound as a guide in places where vision fails. They send out clicks, chirps, or taps and interpret the returning echoes to find prey, avoid danger, or move confidently in ...

Echolocation is one of nature’s most extraordinary adaptations, allowing animals to navigate, hunt, and communicate in complete darkness. Used by bats, dolphins, and even some birds and insects, this ...