A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

Human activity such as farming and tourism forces animals to travel 70 per cent further to find food, shelter or a mate, the first study of its kind to consider the impact on global wildlife stocks ...

Lions and tigers and bears are increasingly becoming night owls because of us, a new study says. Scientists have long known that human activity disrupts nature. Besides becoming more vigilant and ...

Colorado's collared gray wolves may have traveled into Wyoming. That's according to a map that tracks the animals' activity. Colorado Parks and Wildlife reintroduced 10 wolves into Colorado in ...

For centuries there have been accounts of animals behaving bizarrely before earthquakes. Now, for the first time, scientists have filmed the behaviour of wild animals prior to a quake and believe ...

A large-scale analysis of 117 mammal species found that preventing reproduction is associated with longer lifespans, suggesting a strong link between reproductive activity and life expectancy. Why do ...

Roughly 13,000 years ago, Ice Age animals such as saber-toothed cats, the American lion and mammoths started going extinct in the Los Angeles basin, about a thousand years before their extinction in ...

Egyptian fruit bats and mice, respectively, can 'sync' brainwaves in social situations. The synchronization of neural activity in the brains of human conversation partners has been shown previously, ...

The poison mimic frog, or Ranitomeya imitator, is one of the world's only known genetically monogamous frogs. Anton Sorokin / Alamy Stock Photo Monogamy, though not common in the animal kingdom, is a ...

One of the largest studies on wildlife activity—involving more than 220 researchers, 163 mammal species and 5,000 camera traps worldwide—reveals that wild animals react differently to humans depending ...

Google’s 3D animals have exploded in popularity across the web over the last couple weeks, and it’s likely the result of a perfect storm of circumstances. People across the world are stuck indoors, ...