Misinformation is usually framed as a uniquely human failing, a byproduct of social media feeds, partisan politics, and click ...

Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of ...

In parts of India and Southeast Asia, tigers occasionally kill young Asian elephants. Adults are generally safe from the ...

Redd’s daily treatment reveals how orangutans with chronic respiratory diseases are adapting to use certain medical tools ...

Although the New World screwworm has been eradicated from the United States for many years, the recent movement of the pest ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep -- and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep.

In humans, only two genes have been reliably linked to gut bacteria: the lactase gene, which influences milk-digesting ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...

The monogamy rate in humans may be higher than you expected... but we do it in a strange way compared to other animals.

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in ...

In November 2020, Gina Berce Lipor was scrolling Twitter when she happened upon a photo of three North Atlantic right whales. They were swimming at the surface of Canada’s Bay of Fundy and were, the ...