Do animals have siblings, aunties, or cousins? Can they survive without any family at all? Female gazelles, like this ...

New research on the rhythmic drumming and complex calls of chimpanzees could point scientists to the origins of language.

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

Scientists are closer than ever to deciphering sperm whale communication. Their breakthroughs could open the door to expanded ...

Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you ...

There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four ...

A one-foot-long juvenile squid was spotted swimming in the waters around the South Sandwich islands. The footage is ...

New Guinea is home to some of the world’s most toxic birds. Why they contain poison, and how they withstand it is still a ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to ...

Photograph by Christian Ziegler By banding together in coalitions—meaning groups of two or more animals, but usually three to ...