Sea otters, or Enhydra lutris (their scientific name), have recently been spotted making kelp forests their new home. Sea otters are marine mammals that are larger than you think. These beautiful ...

Bhubaneswar: A dip in temperature, rain and cloudy skies have brought a temporary respite from forest fires in the past two days, after this year's early dry spell led to the breaking out of a lot ...

Whereas animal cultures affect just a few crucial behaviors, such as courtship and feeding, human cultures cover a massive and constantly expanding set of activities, from clothing to table ...

While humans are unable to hear ultrasonic sounds, many animals rely on them for communication, navigation, and even hunting. For a long time, researchers believed animals used the same biomechanical ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean ...

While wombats may appear cute and cuddly, they are wild animals that, over time, have developed ways to defend themselves against predators. (Wombats have buns of steel—and they poop in cubes.

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This may sound simple enough, yet the relative importance of dispersal and speciation in generating the tropical Asian diversity of plants, fungi and animals is unknown, even for the largest islands.

“Land animals will no longer be able to cross to the other side, reducing the areas where they can live and breed.” The Amazon rainforest, previously called the “lungs of the Earth,” now ...

New research in the Congo Basin is revealing how this daily rhythm of the world’s second largest rainforest influences the globe. Within the dense canopy of the Congo Basin Rainforest ...