Cats are more social than they are often given credit for. Can you help yours access its inner dog?

Macaques, reeling from a hurricane, learned by necessity to get along, a study found. It’s one of the first to suggest that animals can adapt to environmental upheaval with social changes.

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There has long been anecdotal evidence of the wormy creatures taking to the air, but videos recorded in Madagascar at last prove the animals’ acrobatics.

Researchers say the nearly mile-long swim was the longest by big cats ever recorded.

Un análisis de las vocalizaciones de los elefantes mediante una herramienta de inteligencia artificial sugiere que pueden utilizar y responder a retumbos individualizados.

An analysis of elephant calls using an artificial intelligence tool suggests that the animals may use and respond to individualized rumbles.

They build extensive burrow networks and don’t seem to mind when other woodland creatures use them as flameproof bunkers.

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From sibling murder to snakes for breakfast, birds’ lives may be darker than you imagine.

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Videos filmed by divers show that choking, blinding and sacrificing limbs are all in the cephalopods’ repertoire.

The brittle star specimen suggests that the sea creatures have been splitting themselves in two to reproduce for more than 150 million years.

In a cautious new paper, scientists tried to determine whether an interactive speech board might enrich the life of a parrot named Ellie.

Divers and marine biologists are getting a window into the lives of a red crustacean most often found in the guts of other species.

It may sound like a mosh pit out there. But to the participants, mating is a delicate, sonorous affair, fraught with potential missteps — and fungal zombies.

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Sammy Ramsey casts the mass emergence of the big, red-eyed bugs as a love story, not an insect apocalypse.

Dice snakes found on an island in southeastern Europe fully commit themselves to the role of ex-reptile.

Sperm whales rattle off pulses of clicks while swimming together, raising the possibility that they’re communicating in a complex language.

Gov. Kristi Noem suggested that President Biden should have euthanized the family dog, as she did. Animal experts said that such an option should be a last resort.

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Illinois is the center of the cicada emergence that is on the way. Two groups of cicadas are expected at once, leaving some people queasy, others thrilled.

Professor Young’s experiments with prairie voles revealed what poets never could: how the brain processes that fluttering feeling in the heart.

For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal properties.

The scene ends badly, as you might imagine.

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.