Increased collaboration between zoos and sound researchers could open new frontiers in bioacoustics, according to a new paper.
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2,600km long green corridor the size of ...
Most of us are familiar with sloths, the bear-like animals that hang from trees, live life in the slow lane, take a month to digest a meal and poop just once a week. Their closest living relatives are anteaters and armadillos, ...
The giraffe, one of Africa's most iconic animals, is facing a crisis. Despite their worldwide popularity, giraffe populations in the wild are declining due to illegal killing and habitat loss. A new study published in The ...
A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC 1961, sits about 190 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Camelopardalis (The ...
By analyzing the arrangement of vertebrae in the spines of nearly 400 species of tetrapods—a group of animals with four limbs, such as mammals, reptiles, and birds—RIKEN researchers have found some follow a predicted pattern, ...
What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, scientists believe that ...
New technology that allows zoo animals and their human visitors to share experiences could have positive benefits for both, researchers say.
The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire wolf, a canine species that was wiped out around 10,000 years ago. However, the three animals it ...
Last week, Colossal Biosciences made global headlines when they announced that they had successfully brought the dire wolf back from extinction, or at least a version of one. Colossal's team used pieces of the genetic code ...
