A study conducted in South Africa has shown that seabirds and seals change their behavior in response to fireworks.

Sharks at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, Utah, glide silently behind glass walls — but just how silent is ...

A study reveals how seasonal brain shrinking helps some mammals survive winter, offering new insights into brain plasticity ...

We expected crowds in West Palm Beach. What we found instead was quiet water, wildlife, and a surprisingly remote place to ...

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets striking water, a quick burst followed by a fading ripple. University of ...

Three new species discovered on Dauan Island: two frogs and a unique gecko survive in rocky shelters in the Torres Strait.

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

Animals have a way of breaking our expectations. That is why so many weird animal facts sound fake when you hear them for the first time. We tend to judge the natural world using human logic, but ...

Fish live surrounded by water, so the idea that they might struggle to breathe sounds wrong at first. It feels like asking whether birds can fall out .

Minnesota chose the common loon as its state bird in 1961 because lawmakers and bird experts agreed that no other animal ...

Exploring the instinctive, environmental, and survival-driven reasons behind street dogs' nocturnal vocalisations and the ...

Dear Heloise: For about four days straight, my husband found animal feces on our back deck, up toward the house in a rural ...