Facebook and Instagram can boost wildlife conservation efforts through public awareness and engagement, according to a new study.

Colors evolved for survival, with animals using them for warnings and mating, and plants attracting pollinators.

A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the emergence of colorful fruits and flowers. And there has been a dramatic explosion of color signals in ...

Colors are widely used in communication within and among animal species. For example, peacocks proudly display their vibrant ...

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter I’ve been a stand-up and improv comic for 30 years, and I know for a fact ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It's a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants ...

But the rest of that enlightenment, well, that comes from a lot of hard work—work that is evident on her album Patterns, out October 25. “Thematically, this record is a love letter to self ...

A deep-sea submersible found worms and snails living in cavities below the sea floor — the first time animals have been discovered in such habitats. The creatures may have been pushed into their ...

In May 2020, Pratyusha Sharma was painstakingly parsing data to prepare for a meeting with her research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to find a pattern. It wasn’t ...

In its recent work—published today in Nature Communications—the team used the remotely operated vehicle SuBastian on the research vessel Falkor (too) to identify animals typically associated ...

The discovery helps answer how life evolved on Earth. Quaestio simpsonorum is the first animal to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development. The team's ...