Species vulnerable to enslavement may evolve ways to fight their captors.

The first known spider with a predominantly meatless diet nibbles trees.

When humans open up for a jaw-stretcher, so do their best friends.

New species is thin as a spaghetti noodle but shorter.

Animals would prove fierce competitors at the Olympics — if only they would stay in their lanes.

Tree shrews pub-crawl nightly from flower to flower for fermented palm nectar.

A species of ants not well understood surprises researchers with a nomadic lifestyle, roaming the rainforest on fungal forays.

Pathogens hitchhike on commercial bees that escape from greenhouses. These escapees bring disease to wild bumblebees.

Parasites are small but have a big impact. An estuary study reveals that these little annoyances add up to a lot of biomass.

From opera singers to toadfish, vertebrates may use basically similar circuitry for controlling vocal muscles.

Outsized brains may have sped up evolution of body size in birds.

First big species audit finds coral extinction risks severely under-reported

The 60th meeting of the International Whaling Commission defers voting on deadlocked issues