Nature has no shortage of patterns, from spots on leopards to stripes on zebras and hexagons on boxfish. But a full explanation for how these patterns form has remained elusive. Now engineers at CU ...

What do animals know about death? It's a question Charles Darwin himself pondered. "Who can say what cows feel, when they surround and stare intently on a dying or dead companion?" the biologist wrote ...

Sometimes, conducting research means trekking to remote locales, braving wild beasts, and surviving treacherous weather. Other times, you may find yourself gently combing the fur of several hundred ...

Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a New Orleans darkened by power outages to see "every star in the sky." It was early September 2005, a ...

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 15. The intricate relationships between animals and their microbiomes have emerged as a focal point of scientific inquiry, unraveling the ...

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed a revised critical habitat plan that would protect 1,904,191 acres of critical habitat for the Florida manatee, as well as ...

Observing animals in their natural habitat is cool, but also somewhat limited. As much as we may want to, we can't soar to the heights that an eagle can or dive to the depths that a shark can, without ...

An estimated 3,000 pets were still missing more than a week after deadly wildfires ripped through Maui. When disasters of this magnitude strike, people often flee with their pets if it’s possible for ...

'Sea Lions of the Galapagos' and 'Guardians of the Galapagos', both streaming exclusively on Disney+, take deep and inspirational dives into the lives of sea lions and the efforts to protect their ...