At a lab in the heart of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, scientists are breeding corals to be more resilient to rising ...

Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In ...

Carrying and looking after young is a demanding task, and bigger, longer females have more stored fat to tap for the job. The ...

Meet the Messor ibericus harvester ant, the only animal on record that clones another animal to carry out its lifecycle, ...

The natural world is full of creatures with extraordinary sensory abilities that make our human senses seem remarkably limited by […] ...

For decades, it was thought that while the brain orchestrated male sexual behavior—arousal, courtship, and copulation—the ...

A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river dolphins. They draw it ...

From snails to skunks, squirrels to cicadas, most of our neighbors are quiet and seldom interact with us, but they play ...

Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along its path, the moistened swab collected scraps of life: some combination of ...

By recording grouper grunts for 12 years, scientists discovered major shifts in how red hind spawn and compete. Courtship ...

Conservationists say the unexpected observation could inform efforts to protect or reintroduce leopard sharks, an endangered ...

Nikon has revealed the winners of the 15th annual Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition. The contest recognizes the most dynamic microscopic movies or digital time-lapse photography each year.