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 ...

Another unusually harsh winter in Mongolia that's decimating livestock and sending temperatures to minus 56 degrees Celsius (minus 70 Fahrenheit) may create a humanitarian crisis, with worse ...

Of extinct Ice Age animals, woolly mammoths are probably one of the most famous. But if they were still around, then our ...

Encounters like this are becoming more frequent. Students make shocking discovery after spotting distressed bird in tree: 'We ...

History shows that linguistics evolve in unpredictable ways — and that the supremacy of English is not guaranteed.