Animals A more limited range of color vision might help predators see through camouflage, research finds April 14, 2017
Animals Farmer ants unknowingly domesticated their fungi crops by sequestering them in dry environments April 12, 2017
Animals Thousand-year-old penguin poop points to devastating colony collapse at the hand of volcanic eruptions April 12, 2017
Animals Sleeping around makes it hard to speciate by mixing genes, paper shows April 11, 2017 - Updated on January 8, 2024
Animals A reef-killing starfish’s pheromones could be harnessed to exterminate them— and help the reefs! April 6, 2017 - Updated on April 16, 2017
Animals Eating fruit may have given primates their big brains, paving the way for social structures March 27, 2017
Animals ‘Chewing like a cow’ helped early mammals thrive in the wake of dinosaur extinction March 27, 2017
Animals New Zealand parrot’s ‘laugh’ is so contagious other birds just can’t resist joining in March 21, 2017
Animals How the water bear defies death even in the vacuum of space by wrapping its cells in glass March 20, 2017
Animals Galapagos penguin “teenagers” still beg their parents for food, and they oblige— when there’s a lot of food March 17, 2017
Animals Guillemot chicks leap from their nest, risking life and limb, before they can even fly — and know we know why March 15, 2017 - Updated on March 16, 2017
Animals Antibiotic use kills more bees by letting in harmful bacteria March 15, 2017 - Updated on March 16, 2017
Animals How humans are bringing tigers to the brink of extinction March 13, 2017 - Updated on May 11, 2023
Animals The invasive snakes on Guam are indirectly killing the forest March 13, 2017 - Updated on March 16, 2017
Animals Every day, this man in Kenya drives hours and hours to bring water to wild animals March 9, 2017 - Updated on March 10, 2017
Animals Rangers in India found an effective yet questionable way of slamming down poaching — they kill the poachers March 3, 2017
Animals Wild elephants need only two hours of sleep — that’s the lowest duration of sleep for any animal March 2, 2017 - Updated on December 14, 2023
Animals Half of the world’s species could become extinct by 2100, biologists say at Vatican conference February 27, 2017 - Updated on July 25, 2019
Animals Australia wants to use a herpes virus to wipe out carp population — and this is a huge risk February 27, 2017
Animals New paper traces the history of termites — and it’s surprisingly similar to our own February 22, 2017
Animals Ancient 150-million-year-old ancestor could explain how turtles evolved to retreat their necks February 20, 2017 - Updated on February 22, 2017
Animals Heatwave kills thousands of flying foxes in Australia February 16, 2017 - Updated on February 17, 2017
Animals Climate change has already harmed more than half of all mammals February 16, 2017 - Updated on May 24, 2023
Animals Dogs and capuchins judge you as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, hint at the birth of human morality February 13, 2017 - Updated on February 22, 2017
Animals Mixed cat-and-dog teams are the best defense against rodent pests February 13, 2017 - Updated on May 5, 2017
Animals Interview with Mark Scherz, the discoverer of the gecko that sheds its scales February 13, 2017
Animals Newly discovered ‘escape artist’ gecko species evades predators by shedding its scales February 7, 2017 - Updated on February 8, 2017
Animals Tinder-like app for orangutans lets females in zoos chose who they mate with February 1, 2017
Animals More than 100 natural world heritage sites degraded by human activity, study finds January 31, 2017
