Animals

Scientists are studying why some species live so much longer than others

Long thought to be loners, male African elephants turn out to have surprisingly rich social lives

Google is developing an LLM that could help us communicate with dolphins

Painted ladies travel the globe every year on massive journeys—including across the Sahara

Crows can tell the shapes of stars from those of moons and symmetrical quadrilaterals from unsymmetrical ones, new results show

This discovery adds to a growing list of how animals talk with their urine

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype

States sue HHS for public health cuts, measles cases continue to rise, and a study finds Americans live shorter lives compared with their European counterparts.

Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more important than honeybees

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language

The critically endangered Mexican wolf was mounting a comeback, thanks to a conservation program that dropped fostered wolf pups into wild dens. Then politics happened.

Cuts to federal health and science agencies continue. Plus, we discuss the sounds of sharks, the meaning of Martian molecules and one big dino claw.