The surprising escapes from near-death situations of beetles and other small animals illustrate how both prey and predators ...

Birds that put more energy into parenthood age faster — and die younger, reveals new research. The findings support a ...

In a new study, appearing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, scientists selectively bred Japanese ...

As consumers sit down to breakfast each morning — eggs, toast, milk, and maybe bacon — it’s easy to assume farmers receive a ...

Direct survival benefits in larger groups rather than kin-selected indirect fitness primarily drive the evolution of division of labor in cooperatively breeding vertebrates, particularly under harsh ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A male hourglass tree frog (Dendropsophus ebraccatus) with an inflated vocal sac used to produce calls. (Ryan Taylor) Your taste ...

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds Your taste in music may feel unique, but there may be ...

Your taste in music may feel unique, but there may be something more biologically innate driving your acoustic choices: A new study found that animals and humans tend to prefer many of the same mating ...

Weird History Food is taking a look at the animals we use for our food. Around 11,000 years ago when humans first began trading nomadic lifestyles for permanent communities, they also began to ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...

Mating calls and rituals can be intercepted, or drowned out, by invasive species. Scientists are just starting to understand the consequences. In New Zealand, females from an invasive South African ...