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Juvenile white sharks aren’t quite the loners we imagined. In Southern California, these young predators overlap in space but largely avoid each other, with their movement patterns shaped more by ...

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What did the face of our ancestors look like three million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by ...

The Phoenix Zoo rarely misses a trend. Inspired by Punch the monkey, they gave a young primate a plushy. Here's what happened ...

Plan trips around real birthing seasons and accredited facilities for reliable baby-animal sightings—seal pups, turtle hatchlings, penguin chicks, pufflings, joeys, and more. Learn distance rules, ...

Animals rarely live alone; social structures are vital for survival, influencing feeding, predator avoidance, and reproduction. From fluid fission-fusion societies like elephants and dolphins to rigid ...

In the arid, cracked desert ground in Southern California, a tiny bee pokes its head out of a hole no larger than the tip of a crayon. Krystle Hickman ...

Quick Take Until now, scientists have never understood where tiger sharks travel to mate. An aggregation of tiger sharks in ...

A declaration recognizing whales as legal rights-holders is influencing legislation in New Zealand and sparking an ...

Drosophila mojavensis, and propose that sleep at one stage of an animal's life might anticipate needs at a future stage. The results fit well with this model, but are correlative in nature. The work ...