Nancy Shute discusses how scientists are beginning to study animals’ emotions and personalities — from joy to individual ...

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass ...

The 550-million-year-old fossil Tribrachidium heraldicum is one of the most enigmatic critters from the Ediacaran. With its circular, three-lobe form, it doesn't resemble any modern organism. The ...

An artist’s impression depicts Kryoryctes at Dinosaur Cove in Australia. New research supports the hypothesis that Kryoryctes is a common ancestor of both the platypus and echidna. - Peter Schouten ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

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 ...

In the largest study of its kind, scientists have accurately documented the massive change in animal morphology over the last 1,000 years, with domesticated animals growing larger across the board and ...

Sealed surfaces, artificial light and constant noise: What is part of everyday life for humans poses major challenges for ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- During the total solar eclipse on April 8, several NC State University professors and dozens of students will travel to Texas to conduct rare research on how animals respond to ...

Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like humans, by forming inferences about their surroundings—for instance, squirrels ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes, and other freshwater habitats face extinction, according to a new study published Wednesday in Nature. Researchers found that 24 percent of ...

Humans are captivated by the idea of finding life elsewhere in the universe – and even more by the idea that life, if found, might resemble the complex, animal life here on Earth. One of the easiest ...