From dogs predicting your mood to sea turtles navigating with magnetic maps, animals may have senses humans can’t even ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

The zebras in this very special YouTube clip show us that nature can be extraordinarily kind as well as cruel. It captures the moment when a baby zebra has been left alone because its mother has died.

Humans have five senses, first assigned by philosopher Aristotle: sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. But the list is much longer when it comes to senses across species. We’re not talking about ...

There are animals with sharper senses of sight, sound, or smell ... of their own movements while also detecting the movements of nearby predators or prey. Pit organs appear on a shark’s body in places ...

The pig’s heart was graying rapidly, so McCully decided to try it. He loaded a syringe with the extracted mitochondria and ...

In a study published last month in the journal Ethology, researchers found that electric rays can scare away both tiger and white sharks by zapping them with powerful electric discharges. While ...

Shrimp possess a unique anatomical feature: their heart resides in their head, a surprising adaptation suited to their open circulatory system. This p ...

Why do snakes flick their tongues? Can snakes smell fear? Here are 10 amazing facts about rattlesnakes, flying snakes and other species.

It might sound like the stuff of eerie legends or old wives’ tales, but plenty of people swear they’ve seen […] ...

Just as firefly season lights up Pennsylvania fields, a new study led by Bucknell researchers is shining a light on an ...

Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living ...