A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first ...

So what is an animal anyway? In our inaugural episode of Crash Course Zoology, we’ll endeavor to answer just that because as it turns out, it’s complicated! But before we get there we’ll need to ...

Animal life is a recent addition to Earth, relatively speaking. The planet formed about 4.5 billion years ago, with microbial life likely emerging between 4.3 and 3.7 billion years ago. It was not ...

AI is reshaping countless aspects of life. But so far, its applications have focused mostly on our singular species, Homo sapiens. What if humans used AI to better understand the nonhuman beings with ...

While many circumstances factor into the calculation, researchers found in a new study that local predators, not appearance ...

Haley Fleisch of Myrtle Beach, Florida, kisses her pet raccoon, Oogie Boogie, as she waits for bikers to arrive at at SBB Original in Murrells Inlet in 2011. Raccoons are illegal to own as pets in ...

I'm always fascinated by drawings and paintings created by nonhuman animals (animals). Many remind me of the artwork produced by humans, including some world-famous artists, and I often wonder what ...

In 2025 we will see AI and machine learning leveraged to make real progress in understanding animal communication, answering a question that has puzzled humans as long as we have existed: “What are ...

In May 2020, Pratyusha Sharma was painstakingly parsing data to prepare for a meeting with her research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hoping to find a pattern. It wasn’t just any ...

Famed primatologist Jane Goodall was renowned for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees but dedicated her life to helping ...