Prairie voles are no different from teenagers who fall in love after just one date. These rodents can also form intense ...

Whatever happened to the duck-billed dinosaur, it was a real pain in the butt. Many of the spines sitting atop the animal’s tail vertebrae had been fractured. The dinosaur, known as Olorotitan to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. These three bird courtship displays are so bold, precise ...

We usually think of animal communication as something we hear or smell. Deer are a familiar example, using scents as signals during mating season. New research suggests those messages may also glow.

Just before sunset, as baseball-sized tarantulas cross the road at Colorado’s Southern Plains Land Trust, two biologists quietly exit their car to scoop up a few of these eight-legged pedestrians.

"There are only 22 species of albatrosses globally, 15 of those are threatened by fishing activity. Albatrosses roam the seas and live exclusively on squid, fish and things that they catch in the ...

New research from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology found that elevated ozone levels inhibit mating among flies. Ozone in the stratosphere helps protect the Earth from dangerous UV ...