Squat rhinos lived in North America about 12 million years ago, congregating in huge, water-bound herds much like modern hippos.

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Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos ...

Scientists in Brazil found a very old ant fossil. This fossil is 113 million years old. It is of a 'hell ant,' a type of ...

Learn more about female bonobo coalitions and how they team up to keep male bonobos in line.

Populations of animals and plants separated by even thousands of miles can rise and fall together driven by ecological ...

Forget fleeting friendships – the social secrets of the long-tailed tit has revealed an extraordinary level of family ...

Nature showcases diverse nervous systems beyond a single command center. Several animals, including octopuses, leeches, and ...

Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you ...

The animal kingdom gives us rainbows of color with butterflies and chameleons, and clownfish, but birds give us just as much ...

Imagine walking through a lush, green forest, sunlight dancing on the scales of a basking lizard. Nearby, a turtle glides through the water and a snake slithers silently in the underbrush. For ...

Mark Post, chief science officer for the company Mosa Meat in Maastricht, the Netherlands, who unveiled the world’s first lab ...