A newly identified sponge group called Vilesida is giving scientists a clearer view of animal origins, linking sponges with ...

Coconut crabs are massive. Up to three feet in diameter, they scuttle across remote tropical islands in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean, cracking open coconuts like they’re made of butter, eating ...

Exeter scientists are among those who have discovered many animals learn and pass on behaviors through social learning or culture, which could have important implications for conservation. It was ...

A new large-scale research facility allows the complex behavior of animal groups to be studied in unprecedented detail. Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of ...

The platypus is a bizarre and fascinating creature with a mix of traits from different animal groups. It’s one of the few mammals that lay eggs, and it has a duck-like bill, webbed feet, and a ...

A single universal equation can closely approximate the frequency of wingbeats and fin strokes made by birds, insects, bats and whales, despite their different body sizes and wing shapes, researchers ...

Wing-beat-frequency data for a variety of flying animals versus the square-root of the animal mass divided by the wing/fin area. A single universal equation can closely approximate the frequency of ...