Across reptiles, birds, rodents, and humans, the brain showed the same slow rhythm, cycling over tens of seconds. This ...

The strong preference for humans could lead to the transmission of more viral diseases and adverse health outcomes for people ...

Of all the mammals in the world, humans by far have the strangest diets. As omnivores, we have the most variety of any other ...

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a recommitment to drastically reducing animal testing and eliminating ...

The light-sensitive tissue of birds’ eyes is not supplied with oxygen by blood vessels – instead, it powers itself with a ...

As habitats and hosts keep vanishing due to climate change, the bloodsuckers are turning to us for a free meal.

A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests ...

A decade-long study led by Penguin Watch1, at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, has uncovered a record ...

A new study finds that warming temperatures are causing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier, threatening some species with extinction by century's end.

Penguins are changing the time at which they’re breeding at a record speed, faster than any other vertebrate,” said lead author Ignacio Juarez Martinez, a biologist at Oxford University.

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass ...