A nonprofit research lab is getting attention from some wealthy tech philanthropists. The Earth Species Project hopes to ...

The increasing prevalence of emerging infectious diseases in human and animal populations worldwide underscores the need to ...

When the moon hits L-Cry like a big pizza pie, that’s amore—or at least a mass spawning event for marine worms.

A case of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed in Germany on Friday. The Department of Agriculture has answered common ...

so “they provide a really unique opportunity to study fundamental aspects of nervous system function,” said Rodriguez-Santiago, coauthor of the study. “They belong to a group of animals ...

Cute creatures going viral is nothing new. Seven years ago, the Cincinnati Zoo wanted TIME to name Fiona the hippo Person—er, Animal?—of the Year. But 2024 seems to be on a different level of ...

in neurons of awake animals. This new method offers a more complete understanding of how neurons function, revealing that these two signals encode different information for sensory stimuli.

She wasn’t the only nonhuman newsmaker this year. Indeed, 2024 was the year that animals seemed to do it all, becoming A-list celebrities, political weapons and cautionary tales. Along the way ...

But did all this regenerated tissue translate to improved function? To find out, the authors electrically stimulated the nerves on one end and measured the animals' whisker movement on the other side.

We may think that gift giving is a purely human trait, but it turns out many other animals also treat their mates and companions. If on Christmas morning, upon opening your annual gift of novelty ...

Players put a cup on each hand to act as reindeer hooves and try to pick up as many marshmallows as they can, dropping them into a bowl or cup as they go. The player who has the most marshmallows ...