In the mountain forests of Vietnam, two creatures use their bodies to blend in with the leaves and branches — stick insects.

Oct. 25, 2024 — Drosophila is one of the most thoroughly studied lab animals -- with the exception of the female reproductive tract. Now a team of biologists has taken the first deep look at the ...

Discover the 15 animals that look like, or share similar behaviors with, a raccoon — including olinguitos, raccoon dogs, and ...

Understanding the various groups and species of hooved ungulates worldwide can be difficult! In most Western languages, the ...

Decades after it was first found in Japan, a species of crustacean with unique black-and-white coloring that resembles a ...

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 ...

Even Marine Animals in Untouched Habitats Are at Risk from Human Impacts Sep. 18, 2024 — Climate change and a range of other human impacts are putting marine animals at risk of extinction ...

The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

That's correct - we have just memed. It was funny, hilarious, we feel like laughing endlessly. We memed in the world wild web ...

One insisted sea minks were an offshoot of American minks; the other argued they were a distinct species. In the end, the “separate species” side won, and, in 2007, the scientific powers that be ...

"Currently, there's a notable delay in naming and describing new animals, often because journals ... refocusing attention on taxonomy's importance." One of the species described in the first ...