Many of the animals displayed brilliant 'behavioral plasticity', including a tendency to rush into the cover of trees during ...

Discover the wide range of fish and freshwater creatures that call the Tennessee River and its surrounding valley home.

HUMANS could live for centuries after scientists have cracked the DNA code of the longest living mammal. The bowhead whale that can live for more than 200 years could hold the key to prolonging ...

Salamanders use stress signals to prep their whole body to regrow limbs - offering new clues for human healing.

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Masters of Silent Avoidance Mountain lions are perhaps nature's most skilled escape artists when it comes to avoiding human ...

Critters consuming species that contain deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm’s way ...

If we set aside elephants and blue whales for a moment and shift our focus to the other end of the size spectrum, the world ...

It was unrealistic, I suppose, to expect a flood of hereditary knowledge to come surging in the day we moved on to our farm. For centuries, my ancestors were Shropshire farmers and, growing up in ...

Critters consuming species that harbor deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to keep out of harm’s way.

A large study in pet dogs has uncovered potential new biomarkers of aging that could one day help both dogs and humans live longer, healthier lives. Scientists have long searched for biological ...

The Dog Aging Project enrolled 50,000 companion animals to track aging as it naturally unfolds. The first major findings from ...