SINGAPORE - Animal vaccines have for centuries been used in farms to prevent diseases from spreading among livestock, but ...

For some social birds, raising their young or finding food is a group effort. Learn more about cooperative bird behavior.

Toxoplasmosis is prevalent worldwide, caused by Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular pathogenic protozoan. Cats are the definitive hosts of T. gondii, while warm-blooded animals, including ...

The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) has released the Second Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas, an online guide to ...

Making new friends has its challenges, even for birds. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati found that monk parakeets ...

Once they near emergence, the female's thin skin bulges and pulsates with the struggles of the impatient froglets. The day ...

An experiment on reptile decomposition aims to shed light on a variety of paleontological mysteries, including why so many ...

Africa's Senegal coucal, a ground-dwelling bird, expertly hunts snakes, its primary prey. While snakes rely on venom or ...

For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce ...

Cuckoos sneak their eggs into other birds’ nests and copy egg colors to avoid detection. This study explains how they adjust to many hosts.

After vanishing from England centuries ago, a fearsome predator is now soaring back into southern skies—and it's not just ...

A study led by Oxford University argues that kissing evolved in the common ancestors of humans and apes, and that our extinct ...