Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change. In response to a warmer climate, ground squirrels and marmots in California are ...

Bruce the kea—a species of alpine parrot native to New Zealand—lost his upper beak in an accident as a young bird. But that ...

Some animal adaptations look like they were designed by a committee of mad scientists. The greater short-horned lizard ...

If forced to choose one descriptor for the octopus, the best word may be "otherworldly." These truly amazing marine animals ...

New genomic analysis of the golden sweeper has shown that it uses its prey (bioluminescent ostracods) to obtain its ability ...

Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...

Not all birds of prey hunt from the sky. This bird reveals how an extreme environment is all it takes to reshape anatomy, ...

Hybrid animals reveal growing imbalance between humans, wildlife ...

Tourism at a cave swarming with bats known to have transmitted a deadly fever disease? The popularity of Uganda's Python Cave points to yet another way interactions at the animal-human interface—where ...

These horned lizards turn their lunch into a loaded weapon - then fire the leftovers straight from its own eyeballs.

It started with a set of photographs, taken of an animal captured in 2015 on the Bird’s Head Peninsula in Indonesian Papua, ...