For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce new sounds. But a new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology reveals ...

A Washington state resident has been hospitalized with H5N5 bird flu — a strain never before seen in humans. The patient, an ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...

What happened when one of nature's pickiest eaters met a huge, extremely adaptable snail? Well, it might be the start of ...

Birds and dinosaurs lived together for millions of years, but only toothless birds survived the asteroid impact that upended ...

Scientists have discovered two new spiders with truly bizarre camouflage: not only do they look like bird poop, but they ...

Soft batteries and water-walking robots are among the many creations made possible by studying animals and plants.

They're Arizona's original snowbirds, the sandhill cranes that descend on the wetlands of southern Arizona every fall.

The patient, an older adult with underlying conditions, was hospitalized in early November after suffering from a high fever, ...

Creatures consuming species that contain deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to stay alive.

From cancer-resistant mole rats to 200-year-old whales, evolution has equipped long-lived species with unique biological ...