Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

Tim Birkhead on great auks and their extraordinary story of evolution, exploitation and de-extinction across the years ...

Two former top federal labor protection officials were reinstated to their posts Monday by the full DC Circuit Court of ...

Are seals mammals? We've done the research! Jump in to read about the characteristics of seals that make them mammals!

Meta-analysis reveals there is no evidence that variation in clutch size in birds is driven by the reproduction–survival trade-off.

Day, celebrated on April 1st, is a global tradition involving pranks and practical jokes, from simple tricks to elaborate ...

Worldwide, the most frequent causes of disturbances to ape habitats are land conversion for agriculture or logging, a recent study concludes. The study found that the most common ways apes adapted ...

Whether they hop around the prairie, dabble in wetlands, flit through forests, or forage along the shore, birds are suffering rapid population declines across the United States. That’s the finding ...

Since 2022, H5N1 has been infecting chickens, cows, wild birds and cats — among several other animals. With a record number of human cases in the U.S., the situation is getting increasingly ...

Bishop et al, Asymmetric gait in locomotion of Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, the most primitive extant macropodoid marsupial, Australian Mammalogy (2025). DOI: 10.1071/AM24050 ...

Come March and something very special is happening in our hedgerows. In parks and gardens across the UK, birds are preparing to welcome in the next generation by building nests. March to September ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...