Highly adaptable, Asian small-clawed otters can thrive in a variety of freshwater aquatic habitats, from swamps and mangrove ...

The Mojave Desert may lose and gain suitable habitat for Gila monsters. But the unathletic reptiles might be mostly stuck in the waning oases.

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into sentences. This is thanks to compositionality: the ability to combine ...

A Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise named Mommy gave birth to four babies, believed to be female, at Philadelphia Zoo ...

Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...

Paleontologists found a group of four-legged Triassic creatures preserved in the same bone bed—but they don’t know what ...

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

The nearly complete specimen of a known plesiosaur species is opening scientists’ eyes to the diversification of these ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

Reptiles are fascinating creatures, and they can be wonderful pets. However, they also pose some risks to owners—one of which ...

As Australia confronts biodiversity loss, this research underscores the importance of listening to those who know Country ...