For her thesis, Martin analyzes sea turtle tears. So for several summer nights in 2023 and 2024, she watched the beaches and waited for the turtles to start laying eggs.

Monogamy is seen in less than 10 percent of mammal species, and birds have been found to be not so faithful, according to the researchers.

With brains that process information almost like a computer, sea creatures are already using their advantages and are ready to socialize.

In laboratory experiments, spiders changed the way they built their webs in noisy environments, with rural and urban spiders responding differently to sounds.

It's the month of March, spring has arrived, which means it's time to share our impressions of the warm days we're having in Tashkent.

Solitary life is surprisingly widespread in the animal kingdom. Even among the generally sociable mammals, 22% of the species studied are solitary, meaning that males and females spend most of their time sleeping, foraging or hunting alone. However, scientists have paid relatively little attention to solitary animals.

A recently described fossil relates the earliest known modern bird to ancient relatives of ducks and geese.

Rotting logs, it turns out, play an important role in forest biodiversity and organic matter recycling.

A volunteer spotted the tiny fluffy plant with maroon inflorescences while exploring the northern corner of Big Bend National Park in Texas.

Researchers at Osaka University in Japan noticed that clownfish, also known as amphiprions, actively share food with their hosts, strengthening their mutuallistic relationship.

Mimicking the ink emitted by bioluminescent cephalopod mollusks could be an innovative way to protect both sharks and humans.

The researchers found that most species of birds of paradise have biofluorescence - the ability to absorb ultraviolet light and emit it at longer wavelengths, making their feathers literally glow.