DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago ...

One of the smallest whale species, a male beluga whale can weigh up to 3,000 pounds and grow up to 16 feet long. ©Luna Vandoorne/Shutterstock.com These social animals can live in both salt and ...

Axolotls: Known for their remarkable regenerative abilities, axolotls can regrow body parts, including limbs, tails, and even parts of their brains ...

The export of live animals, cattle and sheep, are a booming business in Mercosur countries. A Brazilian Federal Court has ruled that the export of live animals for slaughter does not violate ...

Mar. 26, 2025 — Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence -- the biological production of light -- is one of the flashier ... Introduced Pacific Oysters ...

April 1, 2025 • Most iguanas are indigenous to the Americas. So how did the Fijian species end up on the island, nearly 5000 miles away in the South Pacific? According to a new study in the ...

These social giants can live up to 200 years, making them one of the longest-living animals on Earth. Bowhead whales communicate using complex songs, but their populations are under threat from ...

The Baka people of Bemba village, Cameroon, show how sharing is a viable forest management and conservation technique.

Mar. 26, 2025 — A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved. Research 'ultramarathon' saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 ...

Animals all over the world have wide range of lifespans, varying from mere hours to millennia. The longevity depends on the organism's reproductive pattern, as insects, who reproduce in large numbers ...

Most animals have no hardwired evolutionary reason to care about human language. But dogs, who've lived alongside humans for at least 14,000 years , have a special motivation to listen to their ...