Wild animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world. Many also act as natural landscape engineers, reshaping Earth's ...
Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...
Animal-borne illnesses that infect humans, known as zoonotic viruses, require little to no evolution before jumping between ...
A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on ...
A study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem suggests that tracking animal movement and behavior in near real-time could detect dangerous pathogens. As zoonotic diseases like avian flu and COVID-19 ...
Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...
The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to adapt to several new challenges to life out of water. So, how did they do ...
The Emmaus-based nonprofit received a $38,400 state grant to document elusive species including weasels, flying squirrels and ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A new study led by an Oregon State University researcher has revealed that more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by climate change. The study, which was published ...
Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...