African striped mice are used to desert conditions but are showing dehydration as climate change heats up their environment.

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Penguins hand over pebbles; scorpionflies give spitballs. But I’m hankering after a sea sponge presented by a dolphin, says science writer Helen Pilcher ...

It is a wonder-filled, sometimes puzzling, and even shocking world out there in the animal kingdom. One of those kickoff ...

Dozens of laboratory mice allowed to roam a large outdoor enclosure returned to a typical level of mouse anxiety after just ...

The spider on the ceiling, the neighbor’s barking dog, or a slithering snake–animals can trigger not just fright but outright ...

Schematic representation of the blood infusion regime (blood from old and young wild type mice into Tg2576 mice). Wild-type mice aged 50–75 days (WT Young mice), and wild-type mice aged 443–532 days ...

Jay Ingram's "The Science of Pets" is a must-read about facts and myths about a global "petpourri" of animals, what's in ...

Professional golfer Hannah Gregg was practicing her putt in Europe when she received some helpful tips and training from an ...

Ringtail is Arizona’s state mammal, designated in 1986 to highlight regionally tied symbols. Ringtails are nocturnal, desert-adapted raccoon-like carnivores about the size of a house cat with a ringed ...