Animals

The mouselike male antechinus goes all out for its first and final mating season

A colorful new video technique lets scientists see the world like birds and bees

Jen Golbeck, “dog mom” to a group of golden retrievers called the Golden Ratio on social media, talks about the science of the bond between humans and their dogs and all the ways that the canines benefit people

Pink fairy armadillos evolved a unique double skin millions of years ago as they moved underground in response to a drying climate

A method that provides cloned embryos with a healthy placenta has led to the first cloned rhesus monkey that has survived to adulthood and could pave the way for more research involving the primates

Tardigrades are microscopic animals that can survive a host of conditions that are too extreme to ever occur on Earth—and scientists want to learn their secrets

Permian period petroleum helped to preserve minute scraps of pebbly hide that probably belonged to a lizardlike creature

Enigmatic octopuses that have been newly discovered in the waters off Costa Rica add to a growing registry of deep-sea dwellers

Wandering albatrosses navigate thousands of miles using “the voice of the sea.”

Dogs are good for you, science says. 

As climate change makes the planet hotter, some animals might become more active at night to escape the midday heat

From fish that dance to “see” to frogs disguised as poop to boat-attacking killer whales, Scientific American rounds up our favorite odd animals of 2023