Animals

The Pokémon franchise, including its recent game Pokémon Pokopia, is inspired by real animals and their ecology. It’s no surprise that so many scientists love to try and “catch ’em all”

Parasitic beetles are the first animals known to imitate floral scents

The world’s largest-known group of chimpanzees split into two factions that are now engaged in deadly combat

Decades of data reveal that animals involved in the wildlife trade—from pet sales to meat markets to illegal poaching—are much more likely to carry pathogens that can infect humans

It was a tough decision to leave Timmy the humpback whale to die on a small island in the Baltic Sea

Scientists have learned how male octopuses’ specialized sperm-depositing arm knows where to go

These tiny fish use friction to put human rock climbers to shame

Snakes that gain poisons from eating toads seem to know when they’re toxic by keeping track of what they last ate

Sperm whales are known to socialize, but scientists were stunned when they saw a group of sperm whales gather as one of them gave birth

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds

Fish may possess the ability to perceive where another being’s attention is focused. And they don’t like when it’s focused on them or on their children

It wasn’t Saint Patrick but a long history of chilly weather and geographic isolation that kept the Emerald Isle snake-free