This elephant visiting a watering hole on the savannah at sunset may be changing its ways to deal with stronger, more frequent heatwaves. Animals, including humans, will have to innovate and adapt as ...

Evolution is ruthless, and nature doesn’t hand out participation trophies. Every creature alive today carries the genetic legacy of millions of years of brutal ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

Anna's Hummingbird is one of many species shifting its range north and its breeding earlier in the year. (Photo credit: Will Sweet) As global temperatures rise, many species are scrambling to adapt–or ...

A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology examines the possible effects of two properties of receiver playing fields documented in studies of animal psychology—habituation and neural ...

The word “adaptation” is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has a very specific meaning to biologists: It refers to genetic changes that are passed on from one generation to the next and ...