Laziness in the animal kingdom is often a clever survival strategy. It helps conserve energy in tough environments, with many ...

If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood. Connecticut is home to seven species of woodpeckers that live in forests, ...

Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

Mosquito inactivity begins when temperatures reach around 50 degrees, with mortality setting in as temperatures approach the ...

Australia declares extinction of the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), the country's last native shrew species.

For three days I had been watching for caribou from behind a spruce-tree lookout not far from my cabin on Savage River, on ...

Fall bird migration is well underway! Our winter residents and migrating drop-ins are now beginning to populate our feeders and lower landscapes.

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths - commonly featured on children's ...

We know commercial apples need pollination to set an adequate crop, and most of them can’t pollinate themselves. We know ...

Bats, spiders, toads, and black cats seem to get all the attention around Halloween, with owls often left out of the ...

This valuable study addresses the effects of selection on aggression on fitness and life-history trade-offs in Drosophila melanogaster. However, the evidence presented is incomplete and does not ...