As wildflowers go, the mountain jewelflower is demure, clever and quietly unbreakable. It has spread across many of ...

Spotted hyenas live in hierarchically organized groups (clans). An individual's dominance over another determines priority access to resources such as food or mating partners, and thus reproductive ...

Scientists discovered that some Amazon butterflies pause reproduction during the dry season to survive extreme heat.

Tiny birds on remote Scottish islands are undergoing a dramatic evolutionary transformation. Scientists studying four ...

When a litter of dogs, for instance, consists of only two offspring, people tend to refer to the two puppies as twins. Twins ...

New research from Queen Mary University of London shows how extreme seasonal patterns are causing rainforest butterflies to ...

Animals do not uniformly hear the world. A forest at night, for instance, carries layers of sound that humans barely notice: ...

In politics, business and other human organisations, leadership transitions can trigger intense power struggles. Rivals ...

Amphibians are animals that are born in water but can survive in both water and land when growing up. These amazing creatures ...

Scientists discovered that Iberian lynxes dunk their prey underwater, rewriting everything we know about wild cat intelligence and culture.

A new study into one of Earth’s most critical habitats has discovered that a species once thought to reproduce through ...

Scientists found frogs follow completely different island rules because even short stretches of ocean become impossible barriers for them.