Octopuses are the species that are most likely to take over the world after humans, scientists say. World leading experts ...

And most of the respondents ascribed emotions to at least some members of each taxonomic group of animals considered, ...

How do animal behavior researchers feel about the feelings of animals? A first-of-its-kind survey helps to answer that question.

Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo is building a new state-of-the-art hospital to "meet the diverse medical needs of the Zoo's animals." ...

In a strange episode in the animal kingdom, a captive marine animal merged with another of its kind to become a single ...

Human societies have long depended on the division of labor to thrive—walk into any town, and you can probably find bakers ...

Scientists have recently discovered a marine invertebrate with the remarkable ability to reverse its aging process, ...

An ocean expedition to a dynamic marine realm off the little-explored Chilean coast — with seeps and vents emitting nutrients ...

As behavioral ecologists, we are interested in how adverse experiences early in life can affect animals' behavior, including the kinds of decisions they make and the way they interact with the ...

genus Decapoda (meaning “ten legs”), was likely a worm-like animal, called a bilaterian, that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Vertebrates and invertebrates marched down very different ...

snails and other marine invertebrates were living in cavities under the seafloor. “To our knowledge, it is the first time that animal life has been discovered in the ocean crust,” Sabine ...