Researchers discovered that animal color vision evolved long before colorful fruits and flowers, with warning and sexual ...

Male pregnancy is a rare phenomenon in the animal kingdom, with just three vertebrates exhibiting this behavior. The seahorse ...

In a strange episode in the animal kingdom, a captive marine animal merged with another of its kind to become a single ...

A four-decade quest to bring the quagga back is being heralded as a success, but not everyone is impressed ...

As co-author Zachary Emberts suggests, future studies exploring the mechanisms behind colour perception in different species ...

Transformative technologies that drive growth and jobs will benefit from new investment by the government’s national research funder.

Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, are ...

A first-of-its-kind achievement has implanted photosynthesizing cells in animal cells to make “planimals.” This feat could be ...

Bioacoustics, the study of production, transmission and reception of sound in animals, has important implications for ecological conservation.

Tool use isn’t unique to humans. Chimpanzees use sticks as tools. Dolphins, crows, and elephants are known for their tool-use ...

A study described the three-dimensional architecture of turtle genomes, which fold in a configuration unlike any other animal observed so far.

In a recent paper published in the journal Genome Research, experts described the chromatin arrangement in the genomes of two ...