Many people believe that cockroaches are simple creatures that act instinctively rather than consciously. The picture is less ...

Cities are known to shape the evolution of wildlife within them, but according to a study of European cities published in the ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Common big-eared bats are remarkable hunters. In 2019, bat ecologist Inga Geipel and her colleagues reported that the roughly two-inch-long creatures seem to use leaves like “acoustic mirrors” to ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

The community is being asked to collect, euthanise and hand in the destructive pests as part of the annual Great Cane Toad ...

When people think of oil palm, they picture tall trees, heavy fruit bunches, harvesters wielding long poles, and tankers ...

Researchers from the University of Konstanz have studied how insect brains take in complex light stimuli and process them in ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever ...

Neural tissue normally dies quickly without oxygen. Yet bird retinas—among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal ...

An OpenAI employee has reportedly said that researchers could be replaced by AI before engineers and sales teams, challenging ...