Meanwhile, humans favored and therefore bred larger domestic animals for the products they provide. Larger sheep produce more ...

But evolution has not moved quickly enough to conceal animals from human-surveillance technologies, which are undergoing ...

Polar bears became a signature project in 2008. Since then, CREW has been striving to help determine why polar bears ...

Animals can evolve separately but end up evolving toward other species, too, or even spontaneously evolve the same characteristics in totally separate groups. Birds and bats can both fly using ...

To build their visual dictionary, the researchers examined two hours of video footage each of 25 wild octopuses in a variety ...

A new study from the University of Montpellier reveals that sheep and goats, despite being herded together for millennia, ...

From salamanders to monkeys, many species get more violent at warmer temperatures — a trend that may shape their social structures as the world warms.

This rising din threatens to drown out the ocean’s own voices—songs so well-structured that a leopard seal’s ( Hydrurga ...

When most of us picture the ocean, we imagine turquoise waves, colorful reefs, and shoals of darting fish. But that’s only ...

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has submitted a formal comment to the National Institute of Mental Health ...

Welcome to the first column of Birdbrained Science! In this biweekly column, I’ll be talking about a variety of scientific topics — bird-related, brain-related and otherwise.