The unusual sighting of an evening bat in Wellington, Colorado, begs the question of how this flying mammal got there.

Picture a dolphin diving toward the seafloor with something odd on its nose. It is not a shell or a fish. It is a sea sponge.

Humans experience only a tiny slice of reality—but many animals perceive far more. From echolocation and heat vision to sensing electricity, magnetic fields, and vibrations through the ground, animals ...

Dolphins developed streamlined bodies and other adaptations when they transitioned from land to water 50 million years ago. Credit: Pexels.com.

When the sun sets a different set of biological systems takes control Nocturnal animals rely on specialized eyes hearing and ...

Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists, and translators labeled creatures based on appearance or limited ...

Denmark’s red streetlights cut light pollution, protect wildlife, and could reshape how cities light the night.

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Scientists used underwater sound recordings to reconstruct 3D dive and hunting behavior of elusive beaked whales in the Gulf ...

Bats get bad press. Short-sighted and cave-dwelling, they generally make the news only when carrying disease, transfiguring into vampires, or else lending their name to paranoiac military commanders ...

Scientists dropped acoustic devices 1,100 meters deep off the Louisiana coast, and what they discovered in the depths will ...

Long before humans built labs, filed patents, or sketched blueprints, animals were already solving the same problems we struggle with today. Nature has spent millions of years refining ways to move ...