Biology

Feline experts weigh in on clingy cats’ supposed “fear of missing out”

Bacteria choose to swarm based on what happened to their great-grandparents

A newly identified “chicken from hell” species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit

Scientists built a robotic dinosaur to terrify grasshoppers, all in hopes of understanding how truly pathetic wings could offer prehistoric animals an evolutionary advantage

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

“The anus was a prerequisite for intelligence” said one biologist

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

Sometime between C.E. 1100 and 1700, a Massospondylus dinosaur bone was found and carried to a rock shelter in Lesotho, marking the earliest known human discovery of a dinosaur fossil

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