Whether it’s the tiny tardigrade defying the void of space or the wood frog rising from frozen state, these creatures remind ...

View of Gentoo penguins in Cuverville Island, in the western Antarctic peninsula on March 04, 2016. The harshness of the elements defines life at the Poles. But for the animals who inhabit these icy ...

While sight and hearing often take center stage, olfaction – or smell – is an essential tool that helps creatures navigate their surroundings, find food and communicate with one another. Mammals have ...

The cheetah, once widespread across Africa, Asia, and parts of Europe, is now confined to a few remote regions due to human encroachment and hunting, with five subspecies distinguished mainly by their ...

Betty Ford Alpine Gardens invites the community to discover the remarkable survival strategies of Colorado’s mountain wildlife during “Habitats and Adaptations,” a captivating educational program with ...

A new paper examines the possible effects of two properties of receiver playing fields documented in studies of animal psychology -- habituation and neural adaptation -- on the efficacy of mate choice ...

When George Orwell published “Animal Farm” 80 years ago, he intended the book — in which barnyard animals rebel against their human overlords to create an egalitarian society, only to slide back into ...