While sleep is a crucial component of survival for all living organisms, some animals take the concept of sleep to an extreme level. Ranging from tree-dwelling animals to nocturnal predators, the long ...

Zoophobia through the ages—how human fear of wild predators shaped cultures, myths, and daily life. From ancient tales to ...

Encounters like this are not unusual in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park. This is a place that’s often called the “Valley of the Leopard”, and for good reason, it has one of the highest ...

Valentine's Day, early tax refunds and Presidents Day sales all offer hints about how U.S. consumers are feeling about their ...

When attacked by a predator, this lizard performs a shocking act of survival known as autotomy, violently detaching its own tail to escape. The severed tail continues thrashing on the ground, ...

The animal kingdom is fascinating and beyond human imagination. There are some animals which have evolved and they live ...

Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the aftermath of the ...

In this episode of Big Ideas from the team behind Deep Look, Niba explores how insects actually see the world — from the ...

A fast-moving ancient crocodile ancestor gets a name honoring the physics teacher who inspired its discoverer.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two clearly defined cell types: ...

"Our results challenge the longstanding idea that rods and cones are two fixed, clearly separated cell types. Instead, we ...