Humpback Whales Around the World All Adopted the Same New Song in Under 2 Years
Humpback whale songs spread across entire ocean basins like viral pop songs. A new tune that emerges off Australia can b…
The astonishing capabilities and behaviors of creatures great and small
14 Amazing StoriesHumpback whale songs spread across entire ocean basins like viral pop songs. A new tune that emerges off Australia can b…
Alex the African Grey parrot, trained by Dr. Irene Pepperberg, demonstrated understanding of zero — a concept humans t…
Bottlenose dolphins develop unique signature whistles that function as personal names — and they call each other by th…
University of Washington researchers proved that crows can identify individual human faces and remember threatening beha…
A Greenland shark hauled from Arctic waters may have been alive when Shakespeare was writing his first plays. A landmark…
When a pistol shrimp snaps its specialized claw, the cavitation bubble it creates collapses with a flash of light and te…
Trained dogs can detect cancer cells, oncoming epileptic seizures, and PTSD episodes by smell alone — sometimes hours …
Elephants gather around the bones of dead family members, gently touch them with their trunks, and sometimes return to t…
Cuttlefish have only one type of photoreceptor, making classic color vision physically impossible, yet they produce flaw…
Octopuses have three hearts, blue copper-based blood, can taste through their skin, and have nine brains — one central…
Discovered in 1998 off Sulawesi, Indonesia, the mimic octopus does something no other known animal does: it selects from…
A honeybee returns from a patch of clover and immediately begins vibrating her body in a figure-8 pattern on the vertica…