As night settled across a forest in northeastern India, some “stocky” creatures with “fiery orange” eyes began calling for mates. The calls worked — but also caught the attention of nearby scientists.

Turtles use hand signals for a number of reasons. This turtle is laying a smackdown, and it could be aggression or flirtation ...

The mating game in the animal kingdom is nothing less than fascinating and somewhat weird. Some species pierce, clone, chew, ...

They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the ...

The courtship ritual of a flamingo colony is a fascinating display, but there's more going on with these moves than meets the ...

In fact, social monogamy is extremely common in birds and somewhat common in mammals, while sexual monogamy is vanishingly ...

Humans typically consider peeing a private act. But for many animals, it’s a crucial way to share information —one that goes ...

Of the 8.7 million species on ... to do with survival? Other animals are much more judicious. Their cultural variation and ...

The Trump administration proposed changing the interpretation of the Endangered Species Act to allow developers to alter the habitats of endangered species like panthers, sea turtles and owls ...

The new species was identified off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. The body of water was renamed as the Gulf of America by executive order on Jan. 20 by ...

The dawn chorus is, in fact, mostly composed of birds of both genders singing to find a mate so they can ... are how they communicate to other males of the same species, or even just other ...

Instinct plays a huge role in parenting, and humans can learn a lot from the animal kingdom. Helen Jukes, author of Mother Animal, which explores parenting in the natural world, says that there's an ...