When we explore the vast diversity of the natural world, we naturally rely on our visual senses to categorize and understand the creatures around us. We tend to assume that if two creatures share the ...

A quartet of researchers from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Básicas, Universidade de São Paulo, and São Bernardo do Campo, all in Brazil, has conducted a study of the effectiveness of different ...

A new study investigates how different mammals react to climate change. Animals that live for a long time and/or produce less offspring -- like bears and bison -- are more resilient than small animals ...

This behaviour may shed light on one of the defining features of our own species: our extraordinary relationships with other ...

In our modern era of larger, more destructive, and longer-lasting fires -- called the Pyrocene -- plants and animals are evolving quickly to survive. By synthesizing the wide body of research about ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Iberian harvester ant produces ...

It's easy to think of pupils as simple holes that widen in the dark and shrink in the light. But if you look across the animal kingdom, you'll see a variety of pupil shapes: vertical slits in cats and ...