News footage these days sometimes shows wild horses crowding dry rangelands in the American West or deer wandering through ...

In a new study, wild regent honeyeaters became vocal tutors, teaching their disappearing song to birds in a captive breeding ...

Eastern box turtles are disappearing across the eastern U.S., threatened by slow reproduction, roads, and habitat loss. Scientists use radio telemetry and GPS tracking to understand their movements, ...

King penguins are adapting to climate change in a way that seems to help them breed successfully, which is unusual.

Any evolutionary biologist will tell you that humans are social creatures, with brains wired for touch, intimacy, and love. As small societies developed under conditions of food scarcity, prosocial ...

The tiny Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) has always fascinated researchers because, according to the rules of evolution, it shouldn't have survived as a species, let alone thrive as a species for over ...

Men have nipples, mammary glands and the hormones required, but the ability for male lactation rarely turns on. Here’s why ...

There is something like less than one chance in 10 billion that this kind of thing could occur," said one expert.

Scientists recreated a life-size oviraptor nest to understand how these dinosaurs hatched their eggs. Their experiments showed the parent likely couldn’t heat all the eggs directly, meaning sunlight ...

Explore the incredible science of parthenogenesis, a natural reproductive process where some animals can produce offspring without males. From reptiles to insects, discover how nature adapts in ...

Bdelloid rotifers shrug off radiation doses that would obliterate human cells. Here’s how their resilience reveals deep ...

Fans who were left concerned by Danielle Collins‘ mid-match outburst earlier in the week were spot on. After going down a set to fellow American Taylor Townsend in the opening round of the Cincinnati ...