It is time for animal behavior to become its own academic discipline. The Animal Behavior Society argues that animal behavior ...

To a casual visitor, these can look like odd habits or animal “quirks.” But to animal welfare researchers and zookeepers, ...

This video debunks common misconceptions about animals that persist despite scientific evidence. Popular media, folklore, and simplified education helped spread many of these myths. Modern research ...

Scientists have developed a new method to simulate the complex movements of animals with exceptional accuracy. The research team set out to solve a long-standing challenge in biology -- how to ...

As much as 6 percent of people are intersex, having chromosomes, gonads, and/or genitals that do not fit neatly into a male or female category. For this and other reasons, human biology is not binary.

University of California, Santa Cruz, faculty members Rita Mehta and Colleen Reichmuth have been named California Academy of Sciences Fellows, joining a governing group of more than 500 distinguished ...

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, neurogeneticist Vivek Kumar, then a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, screened thousands of randomly mutagenized mice.