As their name suggests, carrion beetles eat dead animals. These insects also lay their eggs on the deceased animals so their larvae can eat the meat when developing. But they aren't the only bugs ...

Animal physiology is the scientific study of the life-supporting properties, functions and processes of animals or their parts. The discipline covers key homeostatic processes, such as the ...

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"It's very gratifying to know that one of the world's most critically endangered animals is doing well and breeding within the safety of the fenced area," Howe said in a statement. Based on the ...

Greying with age in horses is caused by an intronic copy number variation in the Syntaxin 17 gene. Here the authors report that the G2 allele with two copies of the duplicated sequence causes slow ...

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“For me, it brings home how truly rich the communication of other species is.” When animals talk, Kershenbaum is all ears. By listening to animals in their natural habitats, he teases apart the ...

Zebras are quick to kick or bite, which seems to work for them. But ostriches care so much for their nesting sites that they run off any other animal that attempts to enter their area.

Naming others is considered a marker of highly advanced cognition in social animals, previously observed only in humans, bottlenose dolphins and African elephants. Marmoset monkeys have now joined ...

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