There’s an entire world of microbiomes living just under our noses. Although we can’t see them, bacteria, viruses, and other ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have identified a single mechanical ratio that dozens of unrelated sea creatures, from ...

Humans and animals like the same sounds, new research reveals, proving Charles Darwin correct. The findings show that people ...

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 ...

Animals do all sorts of things to attract each other as potential mates. Many birds, for example, produce feathers with ...

A new study from the University of Texas at Austin suggests humans and animals often prefer the same sounds. By using an ...

What is the 'most Canadian' animal? Spoiler: it's not the beaver, or the moose. A new study ranks species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the ...

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet ...

(CNN) — Same-sex sexual behavior has been observed in more than 1,500 animal species, but a new study has found that it is massively underreported by researchers. Observations of this same-sex ...

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 ...