Despite decades of independent progress in population ecology and movement ecology, researchers have lacked a theoretical ...

Famine is spreading in Sudan's western Darfur region, UN-backed experts warned on Thursday, as a grinding war between the ...

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth’s surface almost 3000 million ...

Research into hibernating animals reveals that memory lives in the cell and life is defined by the persistence of embodied information.

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While many rang in 2026 with another countdown as the ball dropped, the Nashville Zoo was having its own New Year’s celebration. Just six hours and six minutes into January 1, the Nashville Zoo ...

A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.

For over 200 years, there has been just one species of giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis. This unmistakable African animal is ...

If you’ve ever taken a stroll through Old Sacramento, you have probably seen a balloon artist whipping up a colorful balloon animal for a kid. To someone just walking by, it may seem that that’s all ...

When we gaze skyward and spot a bird soaring through the clouds, we rarely consider the remarkable engineering behind those outstretched wings. Among all flying creatures on our planet, one stands out ...

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The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple times in a remote Samoan rainforest. When you purchase through links on our ...