(Animals that begin life as female and then ... Like slipper snails, clownfish are sequential hermaphrodites who begin life ...

Animal embryos can adapt to their surroundings in remarkable ways like sensing predators and food sources to improve their ...

Giraffic Park. What animal has three humps? A camel with a backpack. What kind of fish travel in tiny cars? Clownfish. Which snakes are the best at math? Adders. How do birds prepare for tests?

Oct. 15, 2024 — A study in the Cascade Range in Oregon of a tiny, elusive skunk found the animal can cover more ground than deer and is sensitive to climate change, ... Bonobos May Be More ...

Nov. 8, 2024 — Tool use isn't unique to humans. Chimpanzees use sticks as tools. Dolphins, crows, and elephants are known for their tool-use abilities, too. Now a report highlights elephants ...

Animals have some amazing adaptations that help them live in even the most hostile environments. Consider camels, for instance. They can thrive in some of the hottest and driest places on Earth. Their ...

Alcohol — and animals that love to consume it — is far more common in the natural world than scientists once believed, a study has found. Because ethanol — the kind of alcohol that forms ...

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It's a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...

As the home of more than 50,000 different animals across more than 30 exhibits ... tanks of the Canada's Arctic exhibit to the colorful clownfish and intimidating black-tip reef sharks sheltered ...

But his ideas that animals are conscious in the same way humans are have long been shunned. Until now. "There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure ...

Green frogs can change sex during their tadpole phase. Tadpoles develop gonads of their genetic sex, but can reverse their ...