The Amazon rainforest is a deafeningly noisy place, a constant cacophony of jungle animals trying to make themselves heard. Amid the din, the male white bellbird has evolved a winning strategy—he ...
Like a tiny, glinting missile, the Saharan silver ant blazes across the searing sand in search of dead animals that have succumbed to the heat. Now, new research reveals these fleet-footed forager ...
ADAM HARTSTONE-ROSE STUDIES the muscles of forearms, which are surprisingly intricate and easily overlooked. The delicate movements of our hands, for example—like the ability to play a Mozart pia ...
IN THE HEART of Brooklyn, New York, one of the most densely populated places on the planet, researchers have discovered a new animal species: a shimmery beetle, smaller than a grain of rice, with ...
Humpback whales are well known for their sophisticated hunting strategies, such as blowing bubbles to form wide nets, then swimming in a clockwise motion to swiftly encircle their prey. This in ...
THE MARMOT LOOKS paralysed by fear, its fingers splayed and mouth agape. The fox is poised to pounce. It’s a freeze-frame of chaos, impulse, and terror—nature at its essence. For his remarkab ...
“I get asked all the time, ‘Can you get octopuses?’” says Jeff Slemp, proprietor of a store called Cuttlefish and Corals Sustainable Saltwater Aquariums, in Portland, Oregon. Slemp isn't oppos ...
"OH, WET PET," American poet Ogden Nash wrote in pithy summation of the humble goldfish, whose habitat is, by tradition, a glass bowl anchored by the faux luxury of a gravel-bound ceramic castle. ...
Deep in the Pacific Ocean, pale purple octopuses with giant cartoon eyes roam the seafloor. Some are covered with pronounced bumps, and others look like they have nearly smooth skin, a puzzle that ...
FOR THE FIRST time in 103 years, hunters will have a chance to bag a sandhill crane in Alabama. More than 15,000 of the long-legged gray birds migrate through northern Alabama each winter, stoppin ...
On an October day in 2015, ecologist Meredith Root-Bernstein was watching a family of rare pigs at a Parisian zoo when something caught her eye. One of the Visayan warty pigs—a critically enda ...
As creatures of the night, bats> The flying mammals have evolved one excellent solution: Echolocation, in which they send out sound waves that bounce off prey and pinpoint their whereabouts. Bu ...
Many of Africa’s most exported animals end up in the United States, according to a new report by World Animal Protection (WAP), an international nonprofit that promotes animal welfare. The report ...
WHAT, YOU MIGHT ask, is a puggle? A puggle is a baby echidna, an animal with quills that looks a bit like a small, round porcupine with a long nose. The baby emerges from an egg incubated in it ...
ROUGHLY ONE OF every five animals that walks the land or plies the skies is traded internationally, according to new research published today in the journal Science. The sobering report seeks to i ...
