Tag: animal behavior

David Kaplan has been working with silk for decades, molding and shaping it into scaffolds, sponges, and films. His lab, ...

Pinpointing when animals became our companions is harder than it sounds. Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we ...

Humans love to take liberties when we talk about our heights. But Afruca tangeri fiddler crabs don’t have that luxury. ...

Humans are adept combiners. As it turns out, so, too, are bonobos. According to a new study in Science, bonobos ...

After listening to hundreds of hours of ape calls, a team of scientists say they have detected a hallmark of ...

It sounds like a paleontological crime scene: dozens of ancient amphibian fossils found buried relatively close together. The bones of ...

Every night, bats emerge out of roosts in massive numbers, creating what scientists have called a “cocktail party nightmare” of ...

For humans, the gestation period can last forty weeks. There are cramps, morning sickness, strange food cravings, increasing discomfort, and ...

Elephants are no pushovers when it comes to walking great distances every day, and they even seem to have a ...

If you could choose one superpower from the animal kingdom, many people might wish for the ability to breathe underwater. ...