This cooling strategy has even influenced elephant evolution. The African elephant has the largest ears of any species ...

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

The African lion’s reputation as “king of the jungle” rests on its strength, group hunting skills, and dominance over most ...

The Murcia tracksites confirm that straight-tusked elephants, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, crossed Spain’s southeastern coastal ...

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways. For a long time, scientists could only make educated guesses about when wild animals were sleeping.

Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, protein-rich larva inside, which seems like an overly complicated way to get protein.

Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, stealing seconds at a time during around-the-clock parenting, getting winks on the wing ...

In parts of India and Southeast Asia, tigers occasionally kill young Asian elephants. Adults are generally safe from the ...

Some days, the news is heavy, the to-do list is long, and the coffee isn’t strong enough. On those days, I find it helps to ...

Some animals may look cool on the outside. In cartoons or films we may have seen the cute portrays of these animals. However, ...

Tigers and salties will only ever meet where their ranges overlap at the coast, but one fatal encounter was documented in India’s Sundarban Tiger Reserve in 2011, when an adult female Bengal tiger was ...

By preserving a moment in time—captured in footprints rather than bones—Murcia’s fossil dunes offer a rare and direct ...