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Have you ever seen birds flying across the sky in shifting, mesmerizing patterns? Or ants using their own bodies to form a ...

Recycling all the human and livestock feces and urine on the planet would contribute substantially to meeting the nutrient supply for all crops worldwide, thereby reducing the need to mine fertilizers ...

Wide-ranging research suggests that as temperatures increase, some creatures pick fights while others struggle to learn. The ...

A new analysis of GPS tracking data from 37 animal species, paired with cellphone location data from across the United States, shows that not only does animal behavior change when humans modify their ...

Bioacousticians are finding animal communication patterns once thought unique to humans — discoveries that challenge ideas ...

The relationship between predators and prey in the wild is underscored by an evolutionary arms race spanning millions of years, but new research has found modern human activity is reshaping the rules.

Across the planet, animals are increasingly suffering from chronic illnesses once seen only in humans. Cats, dogs, cows, and even marine life are facing rising rates of cancer, diabetes, arthritis, ...

Anthropologist and author David Samson examines how the story of human sleep unfolded in his new book, “The Sleepless Ape.” ...

One of the biggest questions in animal cognition is whether animals behave with intent. The standard assumption for centuries has been that their behaviors are driven solely by instincts, drives, or ...

Research from the University of Twente shows how the Javan leopard, one of the world's rarest big cats, survives on one of ...

Every organism you have ever seen, every ecosystem you have ever walked through, is the ongoing output of an algorithm that ...