Research

The deer of Nara Park are part of a millennium-old genetic lineage—does that make them more deserving of protection?

New research explains the science behind the sudden disappearance of fluffy cumulus clouds during a solar eclipse.

Along the Pacific Coast, fast and furious sunflower sea stars are vicious hunters as adults—and they're even hungrier when young.

The mating calls of black drum fish might be the source of Tampa's mysterious thumping bass.

It all started as a Cambridge criminologist’s macabre hobby.

At warm, deep sea springs off Costa Rica's Pacific Coast, throngs of octopus "balls" gather to tend their brood.

A new study shows most people can tune into how chickens are feeling based on their clucks alone.

It all started with a photo of Einstein.

To make it through the long, cold Arctic winters, reindeer can get their beauty sleep while they stock up on calories.

Places that are usually hot or cold developed languages differently.

The story of these distinctive doggos is emerging from ancestral knowledge of the Coast Salish peoples and a new genetic study of the pelt of a pup named Mutton.

These moss balls move in unison, and researchers are okay with not knowing why.

Jack and his handler Collette Yee found challenges, meaning, and each other in their work helping scientists better understand orcas, bats, and more.

A new study shows how the birds identify their mates in a sea of black and white.

In rural Chile, the kodkod, or güiña, has a bad rep for stealing chickens—and as a portent of death and disaster.

In a Swedish amusement park, two volunteers faced their greatest fears—for science.