From the eerie croak of a tropical frog to the haunting call of the howler monkey, the animal kingdom is filled with some ...

Few animals are more majestic than those bearing a crown of antlers. Moose bear these head adornments particularly well; they ...

For decades, scientists believed that bonobos, one of our closest living relatives, were among the most peaceful primates.

Across the animal kingdom, sound is more than communication—it's a signal of survival and success. From birds and primates to ...

A man was arrested with more than 2,200 live garden ants in his luggage at Nairobi's main airport this week amid a rise in ...

Do you love independent animals? Read on to learn about some of the most incredible independent animals living and traveling alone today. Bears are independent creatures who like to live on their own.

Discover the brain science behind how birds learn to sing, from song nuclei to social cues and critical learning windows.

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate relatives spread after the mass extinction. A paleoartist's depiction of ...

Elon Musk has been talking lately about the Kardashev scale. It’s named for Nikolai Kardashev, the Soviet-era astrophysicist who proposed, in 1964, that the use of energy is the essential feature of ...