October 18, 2024 • In the humid rainforests of northern and eastern Madagascar reside seven newly described frog species. They often hang out near fast, flowing rivers. These treefrogs' high ...

More than 100 artworks depicting animal species were individually shipped to the Sioux City Public Museum, where they now ...

Seeing through one eye or many, in technicolour or black and white, few animals experience the world as we do. By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would ...

Rock art in southern Africa might depict long-extinct animals that walked the Earth 260 million years ago. A new paper argues that we should consider these images a form of Indigenous paleontology.

That's pretty cool ... animal totem, it's like the universe gives you a big, colorful hug and says, "Hey, you're amazing! You ...

The art appears to show a buffalo being ... artworks," said the paper in Nature. The Sulawesi drawings could also be the oldest animal drawing ever found. Last year, a cave painting in Borneo ...

A study by adventure tour operator Explore Worldwide has revealed the animals that people around ... which are found in sub-Saharan Africa, are drawing increasing attention despite being limited ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris ...

Snakes, lizards, and worms tend to be long and slender. These shapes ensure they can heat up and cool down rapidly. Within a given species, animals tend to be larger in colder climates and smaller in ...

Around 10 million animals die from animal abuse, neglect or cruelty every year in the U.S. Cruelty and abuse to animals is correlated to domestic violence and other abuse toward humans.

A Washington Post article last week tried to explain the young calf’s popularity, citing scientific evidence for how the cuteness of animals “hijacks our brains,” similar to the way a baby ...

“The strangest animals in the San rock art may be interpreted as depictions of Permian reptiles,” Benoit wrote. “Perhaps there may be more dicynodont depictions to be found among some of the ...