The journal Royal Society Open Science published a survey of 100 researchers ... or fear to deep feelings of affection and ...

KATHLEEN DAVIS: This is Science Friday. I’m Kathleen Davis ... So the opossum is an animal that I find really fascinating. Apart from the fact that they’re super cute, in my opinion, the opossum, when ...

A recent University of Arizona study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the ...

This fact sheet attempts to dispel the fears and answer some of ... When feeding it chooses to land near a hairless area of thin skin -- perhaps the hoof or shoulder of the animal -- hop or walk ...

Mobile phones could be the key to a cheaper and more reliable way of tracking animals for ecology and conservation research, according to a new study.

But this is precisely what understanding death essentially means: grasping that a dead individual can no longer do what they ...

There are scant inevitabilities in life. One of them (with very few exceptions) is death. Unless you’re a particular type of freshwater polyp or a weirdo jellyfish, birth is a guarantee of death.

When she was establishing an alternative research centre, the response from the dean of science at one university was: “You’ve got to be kidding me. I don’t want to offend the animal ...

The strange creature—which bears a question-mark shape on its body—roved about like a prehistoric Roomba, researchers said.

So science already has philosophy within it ... Your point is that if we come to terms with the fact that we're animals, we may also reconcile with our own mortality. Susana Monsó: I think ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

“Why Animals Talk” is full of interesting facts about animal communication: Dolphins identify themselves with signature whistles. The most dominant male hyrax is the one with the most ...