A miniature dachshund survived in the wild for 529 days. Could your dog? Experts say it depends on these traits.

Newport says the idea of testing fish intelligence in the wild, where those animals naturally live, “is actually really quite new, and [the study authors] should be commended for doing that.” ...

“Silence is noisy, so that was super spooky,” says Bertie Gregory, a National Geographic Explorer and host of Animals Up Close on Disney+. Gregory had traveled across the Drake Passage that ...

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A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney. A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood ...

Bender hopes her study will help people understand dogs even better, particularly those animals that work in roles vital to public safety such as search-and-rescue, police, and service dogs.

It’s hard to study animals at this depth in the cold, since they spend a lot of time in a habitat “on the continental shelf to the deep sea,” says Matthew Davis, a professor of biological ...

The same trait is found in the fugu pufferfish, blue-ringed octopus, and other poisonous animals that remain impervious to the toxins they carry. Indeed, when Jønsson and his collaborators ...

As for other animals, “ash impacts on livestock are quite similar to impacts on people in terms of eye, skin and airway irritation,” says Stewart. Unsurprisingly, if they eat ash, it can have ...

A leaf-cutter bee photographed in Rocky Mountain National Park ... chemical compounds that serve as food and medicine for many animals. Photograph by Krista Schlyer Robert Paxton, a zoology ...

In suburban Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) previously figured out how to break into garbage bins and ...

The presence of reindeer and mastodon, big animals that eat a lot, means the landscape was highly productive. The team didn’t find any genetic traces of carnivores, a vital piece of a complete ...