On islands from Hawaiʻi to the Atlantic, some of the planet’s most distinctive land snails are disappearing so quickly that ...

Even jellyfish need sleep, despite lacking brains. Discover why this finding is challenging everything we thought we knew.

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For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Let’s turn to animals to answer this question. Just like animals, our attraction is guided by traits that would make someone ...

In his book “The Intimate Animal,” sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need ...

While most animals manage to avoid inbreeding through scent recognition or by leaving their packs, others (such as those ...

Of all the schemes that humans have devised to keep sea lions from gorging on the salmon of the Columbia River basin, none has worked for long. Local officials and researchers have chased sea lions ...

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It's similar to how humans reproducing with relatives can give their offspring a higher chance of diseases. But that's not all. A small proportion of unisexual plants have systems that seem to be in ...

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. By Emily Anthes About two decades ago, the dark-eyed junco ...