Termites are among the most successful animals on Earth, forming vast societies that can number in the millions. But how did ...

The finding offers a small window of hope for a polar bear population vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

In October 2025, a truck transporting 21 rhesus monkeys overturned on Interstate 59 north of Heidelberg, Mississippi. Several ...

Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior ...

Groundhogs predict spring with the same accuracy as flipping a coin. But they’re vital to their ecosystems, feasting through ...

The diet has been linked to weight loss, longer life span and even a lower risk of cancer — in mice. What about humans?

Cows are literally designed to eat for hours, which can actually get them in trouble. The rumen, or a cow’s first stomach (and why they’re called ruminators), is a fermentation system that thrives on ...

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

Pangolins have one of the strangest tongues on Earth, stretching deep inside the body to reach ants far underground.

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert to clinicians Tuesday, warning that the savage, flesh ...

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - and now we may know what it ate ...