A male fruit fly in a laboratory chamber extends his wings and vibrates them to produce his species' version of a love song.

The video examines five animals whose diets differ sharply from common assumptions. Visual examples contrast public perception with documented feeding behavior observed in the wild. In several cases, ...

The video explores a hypothetical scenario in which three African animals are introduced into South American ecosystems. It ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the ...

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Young primates in a southern African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates with teeth adapted for eating plants.

For the first time, scientists have recorded how baby dunnarts, tiny carnivorous marsupials from Australia, reach their mother's pouch not long after being born. While much is known about how many ...

When you're in love, your heart can race, and you can feel like your blood pressure is through the roof. While that's ...

At the center of the Weightwatchers experience is an innovative points system that takes the guesswork and guilt out of ...