Past theories have suggested that animals exhibit SSB to increase group cohesion, to signal dominance among a larger group, ...

Nature has produced creatures whose survival traits trigger deep instinctive fear. Some rely on size and strength, while ...

Science and common sense show diverse animals are feeling beings who care about what happens to themselves and others, and ...

Biologists tend to look at the animal kingdom and try to categorize things in an organized fashion. But nature has a way of ...

A new study by researchers at Imperial College London and published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution could help shed ...

Many animals do something that still surprises researchers: females often mate with more than one male. This ...

Horses that were presented with cotton pads soaked in a scared human’s sweat showed more signs of fear themselves ...

Sleep is one of life’s most universal behaviors. Despite its ubiquity, it’s also one of the most mysterious. Humans spend ...

A new study published in Conservation Biology examines the behavior and distribution of queen conch (Aliger gigas) to guide ...

Sage grouse rely on one of the most visually striking courtship displays in the animal world. Males inflate large chest sacs, producing sounds and movements designed to attract selective females.

A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

A new study from the multidisciplinary brain research center at Bar-Ilan University found that jellyfish and sea anemones ...