Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with ...

An entertaining view of what unpopular creatures including raccoons, rats, coyotes, gulls, snakes, and other intruders teach ...

Scientists link humidity, microbes, and melanin to a pattern where animals in warm, wet climates develop darker feathers and fur.

Less like a Ferrari and more like a junkyard go-kart, the arrangements of organs within our vertebrate bodies are far from well-ordered. This is especially true of our internal wiring, specifically ...

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing how to cook.

Why do desert foxes have huge ears while Arctic foxes don't? Learn how Allen's Rule explains the link between body shape and heat management.

Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't?

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue ...

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

Animals on land and sea use sound for different purposes – and alterations in their environment can change the effect it has ...

Large-scale evolutionary analysis shows most zoonotic viruses emerge without prior adaptation, while passing through a laboratory leaves detectable genetic signatures, offering a new tool to interpret ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species lasts forever.