The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked “monotocous” species, meaning it usually has one offspring per pregnancy, ...

Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do.

A Malaysian research team proposed new concepts such as cowvoltaics, sheepvoltaics, goatvoltaics, veggievoltaics, ...

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Jay Ingram's "The Science of Pets" is a must-read about facts and myths about a global "petpourri" of animals, what's in ...

But cleverness is hard to define - animals have to contend with different challenges in life and what might be clever or ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before.

And the trend shows no sign of slowing. The post Scientists find that 16,000 new species are discovered every year appeared ...

Around 16,000 new species are described each year, but most animals and plants are listed as threatened as soon as they are ...

A living database reveals why the global count of mammal species keeps changing - and why accurate naming matters for ...

Chulalongkorn University, through its Corporate Communication Center, in collaboration with the Faculty of Science, ...

For centuries, Sri Lanka’s biological knowledge travelled the world — anonymously. Embedded deep within the pages of European ...