Animals

Scientists have long wondered how baleen whales make their songs, and a new study has finally uncovered the anatomical workings behind their melodies.

Pythons turn their food into meat pretty efficiently, a study finds, making them an intriguing alternative to climate-unfriendly cows

New research shows that CRISPR, the gene editing technique, could make chickens more resistant to bird flu. But its use raises many ethical and scientific issues

The U.S. will see two adjacent broods of periodical cicadas emerge this spring

On the African savanna, a single invasive ant species has upset the delicate balance between predator and prey.

Surprisingly, the young of limbless amphibians called ringed caecilians stimulate their mother by touch and sound to release a milklike substance

One in four Labrador retrievers carries a gene that tricks their brain into thinking they’re starving

Schools of brainiac fish share “images” of nearby objects and use their extraordinary ability to see farther

Chinese researchers have found the gene responsible for the brown-and-white fur of a handful of giant pandas

Pets can’t report their dreams, but scientists have some evidence about what is happening when Sparky and Mittens sleep

For the first time, scientists make detailed observations of a single killer whale killing a great white shark and then eating its liver

Photographers captured a healthy male humpback penetrating a weaker individual in the first record of humpback whale sex