November 1, 2024 • For years, we've been asking, "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" Maybe what we should have been asking is, "Which came first: the frog or the tadpole?" A new paper in ...

Seeing through one eye or many, in technicolour or black and white, few animals experience the world as we do ... to be up to 350 times more sensitive to colour at night than ours. Although the eyes ...

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter I’ve been a stand-up and improv comic for 30 years, and I know for a fact ...

Oct. 15, 2024 — A study in the Cascade Range in Oregon of a tiny, elusive skunk found the animal can cover more ground than deer and is sensitive to climate change, ... Bonobos May Be More ...

There is more to treating animals in an appropriate way than keeping them healthy. Are we right to use animals as objects of entertainment? From the welfare point of view it is wrong to keep an ...

Non-linguistic animals are going to lack this; they're not going to have a concept of death that is as complex as ours. I'm more interested in whether they have anything that counts as a concept ...

2024 — Geneticists have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs -- the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing ... Oceanographers Record the Largest ...

Animal behavior research is particularly relevant to the study of human behavior when it comes to the preservation of a species, or how an animal’s behavior helps it survive. The behavior of ...

Jacques Pépin's recipe for chicken liver pâté is silky-smooth, inexpensive, and simple to make — and perfect with a cocktail or glass of wine before a meal. Jacques Pépin is a legendary ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris ...

Keeping pets gives many people companionship and great happiness. And it provides many animals with a loving home and an apparently happy life. Many breeds of certain animal species - dogs and ...

Animal migration has fascinated humans for millennia. And for good reason: Some of the most astonishing feats of endurance are performed by long-distance migrants, such as the nine-day non-stop ...