Researchers discovered how "animal personality" affects the way wild animals respond to the growing spread of human activity.

Kids are learning that personal attacks, evasion, and deception are common in politics today. Those lessons won’t serve them ...

In the past, people enjoyed watching elephants perform tricks in circuses. Today, such entertainment has largely fallen out ...

Your pet’s daily behaviors may carry important signals, as experts say subtle changes in habits can reflect emotions, needs, ...

Jellyfish are opportunistic predators but it seems they've added these typically seafloor dwelling worms to the menu.

Scientists have made the first experimental observation of matter wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom.

Researchers have developed a molecular "light switch" for the so-called love hormone oxytocin, offering new insights into how ...

Some lives seem to belong less to a nation or a profession than to a disposition. George B. Schaller’s was one of them. He ...

Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...

In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, harvester ants congregate with serrated jaws agape outside the nests of much smaller cone ants. However, the nests’ inhabitants are not threatened. Instead, ...

There was once a time where being alone in public was possible. I implore you to try a small test: stop reading for just a moment and look around the room. Look at the ceiling, look at the walls, ...

Animal behavior reflects a complex interplay between an animal's brain and its sensory surroundings. Only rarely have ...