Biology

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

Scientists are racing to stop a tiny mite that could devastate the pollinators and agriculture

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

A team of researchers traced the wild animal source of the mpox virus to the fire-footed rope squirrel

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

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

There are real, physiological reasons why the same temperature feels different in April and October

One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them