Human-driven climate change is increasingly shaping the Earth’s living environments. Rising temperatures, rapid shifts in rainfall and seasonality, and ocean acidification are presenting altered ...

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Homosexual behavior is much more common across the animal kingdom than we first thought, new research has found. Scientists found that 78 percent of animal behavior experts had seen some degree of ...

OMAHA’S HENRY DOORLY ZOO, KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR SENSORY OBJECTS INSIDE EXHIBITS. THOSE OBJECTS KEEP ANIMALS ENGAGED, AND KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S ANNA BEHNING TAKES US THERE. SO CAITLIN, AS THE ...

Science has treated same-sex sexual behavior as an “evolutionary conundrum” because it (generally) doesn’t help animals to reproduce, thus ensuring that their genes get passed down and their species ...

Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...

Several years ago, Christian Rutz started to wonder whether he was giving his crows enough credit. Rutz, a biologist at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, and his team were capturing wild New ...

During the height of the COVID pandemic, headline stories were peppered with photos of deserted streets from the world’s largest metropolises. Universities quickly began to resemble ghost towns, as ...

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...

A team has developed a new software tool to help researchers across the life sciences more efficiently analyze animal behaviors. A team from the University of Michigan has developed a new software ...