Christmas came early at the Memphis Zoo with the much-anticipated arrival of an orangutan baby, a girl named Ruhana ...

Dr. Gil Mor discusses sex-specific placental responses and long-term immune alterations from prenatal virus exposure.

Animals have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, taking micro naps during parenting, sleeping on the wing during ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do.

Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some ...

The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act bans the use of live animals in live fire training exercises and prohibits ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...

For decades, a silent killer has slaughtered frogs and salamanders around the world by eating their skins alive. Now, a global team of 41 scientists has announced that the pathogen—which humans ...

The field of biological research has long relied on conventional model animals to unravel complex biological and ...

Animal physiology is the scientific study of the life-supporting properties, functions and processes of animals or their parts. The discipline covers key homeostatic processes, such as the regulation ...