Scientists To Shine Light On How Animals React During Total Solar Eclipse
WASHINGTON (AP) — When a total solar eclipse transforms day into night, will tortoises start acting romantic? Will giraffes gallop?…
WASHINGTON (AP) — When a total solar eclipse transforms day into night, will tortoises start acting romantic? Will giraffes gallop?…
Chimpanzees enjoy teasing each other apple2499/Shutterstock Bonobos, orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees all poke, tickle and even steal from their peers…
A tardigrade seen with a fluorescence microscope, with a fluorescent marker highlighting some of its organs Smythers et al./PLoS ONE…
Carlyn Kranking and Joe Spring In 2023, a whirlwind of science headlines swept across our screens, from the find that…
Joe Spring Associate Editor, Science After the sun sets over Florida, and the sky and the seas beneath it become…
A mouse wearing virtual-reality goggles? Now I’ve seen everything. The point is to show everything to a mouse. Brain researchers…
Photographs by Morgan Heim Text by Cheryl Katz Perched on a snow-crusted hill in a glacier-flanked valley known as Reindalen,…
Kamala Thiagarajan, Undark As far back as he can remember, Kali Chockalingam, now 53 and living in Echur, a village…
A trained monkey in Rawalpindi, Pakistan Associated Press / Alamy Monkeys that “dance” in street shows in Pakistan have high…
Feline researchers have long believed that purring is produced by voluntary muscle contractions, but a new report indicates that this…
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Suddenly, Franks realized she had another meeting to get to, and here she was in a room full of free-ranging…
Atlantic puffins in Spitsbergen, Norway, are different from those found further south Rich Reid/Alamy Two distinct subspecies of Atlantic puffins…
Eat almost anything. Sleep almost anywhere. These, it seems, are the secrets to surviving in the city as a wild…
Anthony Ham Freelance writer The armed men aren’t supposed to be here. We are several miles inside Buffalo Springs National…
The vast ocean is a lot less lonely with a buddy. Scientists have discovered two great white sharks, known as…
Carlyn Kranking Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation In trying to capture the perfect image of a bird, photographers often focus…
Victoria Sayo Turner Mass Media Fellow, AAAS Few animals captivate the human imagination like orcas. Their recent attacks on sailing…
This story originally appeared in High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The first grainy film…
Marine scientists found a previously unknown octopus nursery in a discovery that could help lead to greater protection for the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — You know instantly when someone is speaking to an infant or small child. It turns out that…
A melanistic leopard or “black panther” in Laikipia, Kenya – not the UK Chris Brunskill/Getty Images Rumours of big cats,…
If they found a mutation in around 50 percent of an offspring’s DNA, they concluded that it was likely a…