Goffin's cockatoo bending a hook into wire.
Credit: Bene Croy
In the early 2000s the New Caledonian crow Betty in Oxford shocked the world when she spontaneously bent a hook into a straight piece of wire while trying to retrieve a...
Not all new behaviors catch on, but UCLA scientists saw the practice of inserting a finger in a friend’s nostril spread to other monkeys in one group.
Credit: Kathryn Perry
One white-faced capuchin monkey sticks its fingers deep into...
A rendering of the toothless dwarf dolphin, according to the researcher's findings.
Credit: Copyrighted by Robert Boessenecker
Continuing to uncover fossil evidence along the coast of South Carolina, researchers, led by a faculty member at College of Charleston, have...
Tropidogyne pentaptera. 100-million-year-old fossilized flower identified and named by OSU researchers George Poinar Jr. and Kenton Chambers.
Credit: Image courtesy of George Poinar Jr., Oregon State University
A Triceratops or Tyrannosaurus rex bulling its way through a pine forest likely dislodged...
Walnuts.
Credit: © Tim UR / Fotolia
Research led by Lauri Byerley, PhD, RD, Research Associate Professor of Physiology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found...
Princeton University research suggests that idle conversation could be a social-bonding tool passed down from primates. The researchers found that ringtailed lemurs (above) use vocalizations far more selectively than previously thought, primarily exchanging calls with individuals with which they...
A panda in China's Wolong Nature Reserve, snacks on bamboo. Efforts to conserve panda habitat have benefited both other animals and plants, but also has benefited humans by bolstering forests to sequester greenhouse gases, and retain water and soil.
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This female mountain lion, known as F52, was collared in the Santa Ana range. She later died near a busy highway of unknown causes. Mountain lions in the Santa Ana range are effectively cut off from those on the...
Artist's impression of how Victorian palaeontologists thought the Megalosaurus looked (R) is compared with how we now understand it to have looked (L).
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
Pioneering technology has shed fresh light on the world's first scientifically-described dinosaur fossil...
Wolves and dogs are sensitive to inequity.
Credit: Robert Bayer
Not only dogs but also wolves react to inequity -- similar to humans or primates. This has been confirmed in a new study by comparative psychologists of the Messerli Research Institute...
Younger capuchin monkeys turn to older animals to learn how to open Panama fruit. But even experienced monkeys will pick up a new technique that is more efficient.
Credit: Photo by Brendan Barrett, UC Davis
Wild capuchin monkeys readily learn skills...
