Every spring, more than 200,000 northern gannets — stocky seabirds with dazzling white feathers — journey to the coast of ...

Mosquitoes, houseflies, bedbugs, ticks, rats, cockroaches, ants, snakes, and pigeons are common pests. They invade homes and ...

Dec. 6, 2024 — Desert ants of the Cataglyphis nodus species use the Earth's magnetic field for spatial orientation, but rely on a different component of the field than other insects. The survey ...

Animal cruelty involves inflicting harm, injuring, or killing an animal. The cruelty can be intentional, such as kicking, burning, stabbing, beating, or shooting; or it can involve neglect, such as ...

Dec. 10, 2024 — Snow cover in the Sierra Nevada is expected to shrink overall as the climate warms, but avalanche frequency could remain the same or even increase at high elevations. That's bad ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has developed a comprehensive set of innovative ...

Just like humans have homes, animals also have places they live. The places where animals live are called habitats. Also, just as humans are all different and therefore live in different types of ...

Vector-borne diseases represent a significant public health challenge, as they are transmitted to humans and animals ...

Another apparent priority for Google in 2025 is expanding Android’s Do Not Disturb system in a way that’ll introduce multiple ...

In a world that still contains some potent predators, you might think the deadliest animal would be something like a great ...

Some rare bits of Christmas mythology are even stranger still—like the one that claims that at the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve, animals gain the power of speech. The legend—most ...

Dogs and cats used to be vectors of rabies in the United States, but that has shifted thanks to a vaccination effort.