Environmental DNA harvested from the ocean, land and air can help scientists monitor wildlife. The challenge is figuring out how to interpret this eDNA.

Neiman Marcus has quietly removed the word “Christmas” from its iconic, 98-year-old annual gift catalog – and some company insiders gripe that the stealthy switch smacks of woke politics ...

As behavioral ecologists, we are interested in how adverse experiences early in life can affect animals' behavior, including the kinds of decisions they make and the way they interact with the ...

The third-largest outbreak in history of the deadly Marburg virus was sparked by a single jump of the pathogen from an animal to humans, preliminary genomic evidence shows. The outbreak began last ...

This past spring, Harvard University evolutionary biologist Joanna Wolfe, Ph.D., was in Okinawa, Japan, gathering information for her research on carcinization, or the study of how animals take on ...

“To our knowledge, it is the first time that animal life has been discovered in the ocean crust,” Sabine Gollner, a marine biologist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea ...

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter I’ve been a stand-up and improv comic for 30 years, and I know for a fact ...

The Earth is home to some amazing animals, and many of them are well-known. Everybody knows how quick cheetahs are, how big elephants can grow, and how adorable chipmunks can be. But there are some ...

Animal behaviour is the scientific study of the behaviour of animals. The discipline covers study under experimental conditions, behaviourism, or natural conditions, ethology.

But what about the rest of the animal kingdom–how do non-human animals understand and respond to death? The answer depends on species, individual, and circumstance. “There’s a wide variety ...