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

At the viral chatter stage of an outbreak, pathogens are just starting to infect people in sporadic bursts. It’s a sign that a pandemic may be on the horizon.

Crows have a sense of geometric intuition much like our own, a new study reveals. They can detect the 'odd one out' in a set ...

Imagine stumbling upon a creature that looks like a mash-up of a duck, a beaver, and an otter—with a dash of poison thrown in ...

Viewed from this deep time perspective, it becomes evident that H5N1 is displaying a common pattern of stepwise invasion from animal ... only through random mutation, the odds of obtaining all the ...

Paleontologists have discovered tracks belonging to meat-eating theropods and long-necked sauropods on the Isle of Skye.

In a testament to the crows’ intelligence (or perhaps just the deliciousness of mealworms), the birds all caught on ...

How consumers define ‘clean label’ is expanding beyond ‘simple, easy-to-understand ingredients’ to include questions about ...

Crows can recognize geometric patterns, suggesting that humans aren't unique in understanding shape structure.

Animal communication was thought to be mostly a mere random assortment of calls ... hinting that this capacity may have deeper evolutionary roots than previously assumed. An important implication ...

Animal communication was thought to be mostly a mere random assortment of calls ... hinting that this capacity may have deeper evolutionary roots than previously assumed. An important implication ...