Echolocation is one of evolution’s most remarkable solutions to life in darkness. This video explores how certain animals ...

Bat perception has been examined for decades as a problem of sensory reach rather than animal intelligence. Many species ...

This sleek, black creature of the deep is a master of speed and agility, gliding effortlessly through the ocean’s vast ...

The natural world is full of animals that seem to defy logic, blurring the line between reality and imagination. Some look ...

While we’re busy faffing about with satnavs and getting lost if our phone battery dies, the rest of the animal […] ...

Flying foxes, or fruit bats as they are locally known, are disappearing rapidly due to misconceptions about medicinal ...

Sperm whales are named after the waxy substance found in their large heads called spermaceti. The spermaceti is an oil sac ...

But cleverness is hard to define - animals have to contend with different challenges in life and what might be clever or ...

As The Sunday Independent reports, Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) co-ordinator Dr Simon Berrow has also expressed ...

While they don't write love letters, there’s no doubt animals form deep and enduring friendships and use many different ways ...

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

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