Tag: animals

A chimpanzee in Budongo Forest, Uganda, feeding on the fruit of a sandpaper tree (Ficus exasperata)Elodie Freymann (CC-BY) Several plants ...

Artist’s impression of Lokiceratops encountering a crocodilian in the 78-million-year-old swamps of northern Montana©Andrey Atuchin for the Museum of Evolution ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z996gaqpLCM For the first time, scientists have captured video of leeches leaping from leaves, settling a centuries-long dispute over the ...

Two teeth, viewed from multiple angles, from the newly identified ancient ape Buronius manfredschmidiBöhme et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY ...

A male Verreaux’s sifakaGabrielle Bueno Dominant male lemurs flexibly grow their testicles when other males are around, putting them in ...

The domestication of horses began on the Eurasian steppesLina Shatalova/iStockphoto/Ge​tty Images Ancient breeders dramatically shortened the natural generation times of ...

A swarm of hundreds of thousands of bats roosts in the Jornada caves in New MexicoLaura Kloepper A trained hawk ...

A rare sighting of a giant pangolin revives hopes for the species' survival in West Africa, despite threats from poaching ...

An artistic reconstruction of Genyornis newtoni, an ancient relative of geeseIllustration by Jacob C. Blokland Australia’s prehistoric thunder birds – ...

Conservation workers examine the body of a Sumatran tiger that died after getting caught in a snare in IndonesiaAfrianto Silalahi/NurPhoto ...