A brand new statistical mannequin might assist scientists perceive how animals make inferences about whether or not their environment are novel or have not modified sufficient to be regarded a brand new context.

Constantly observing animals with movement sensors may enhance earthquake prediction.

5 years earlier than the novel coronavirus ran rampant all over the world, saiga antelopes from the steppes of Eurasia skilled their very own epidemic.

After weeks of rioting and with legislators of each stripe promising police reform or abolition, New York’s police union boss, Mike O’Meara, took a stand to excoriate lawmakers and the media for treating cops like “thugs.” ...

A workforce of scientists finding out the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has triggered the COVID-19 pandemic, discovered that it was particularly well-suited to leap from animals to people by shapeshifting because it gained the flexibility to contaminate human cells.

Researchers have found a brand new migration sample (or lack of) at Pinnacle Level, a now-submerged area in South Africa. Whereas it was first believed giant omnivores would journey to observe the expansion of vegetation to outlive, our researcher got here to a totally new conclusion by means of finding ...

Geologists have found the primary ancestor on the household tree that accommodates most animals right now, together with people. The wormlike creature, Ikaria wariootia, is the earliest bilaterian, or organism with a back and front, two symmetrical sides, and openings at both finish linked by a intestine. It was present ...

Sharks, penguins, turtles and different seagoing species might assist people monitor the oceans by transmitting oceanographic info from digital tags.

Cell biologists say they've, for the primary time, instantly noticed and recorded in animal cells a pathway referred to as branching microtubule nucleation, a mechanism in cell division that had been imaged in mobile extracts and plant cells however circuitously noticed in animal cells.

Scientists have now quantified the worldwide decline of huge freshwater animals: From 1970 to 2012, world populations of freshwater megafauna declined by 88 % - twice the lack of vertebrate populations on land or within the ocean. Giant fish species are significantly affected.