Play is important for animals in captivity, both as an indicator of their emotional states and as a contributor to their long ...

Survival in nature is often framed as a solo challenge, but some of the strongest strategies rely on cooperation. Certain animal pairings combine complementary abilities that dramatically increase ...

Parenting kids is so challenging because kids have big feelings, and they express these big feelings with big (i.e., challenging) behaviors. These feelings are usually complex. For example, your child ...

This video explores a frog with an unusual ability that allows it to nearly disappear from view. By altering how blood moves through its body, the animal reduces visibility in a way rarely seen in ...

A crab-like body has evolved at least five separate times in ten-legged crustaceans, and scientists keep finding the same pattern. Researchers in Germany compared crab-shaped groups with their ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do the same. Cephalopods like the giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) ...

A ‘photonic skin’ with controllable colour and texture brings materials science a step closer to the adaptive camouflage found in nature. Benjamin Renz is in the 2nd Physics Institute, University of ...

NATURE BRIEFING 06 January 2026 Daily briefing: Animals without brains sleep too — hinting at why we sleep at all Jellyfish seem to sleep in ways strikingly similar to humans, despite not having a ...

Animal advocates in Polk County, Florida, claim the sheriff's Animal Control facility has a high euthanasia rate. Activists allege a lack of funding, transparency, and adequate programs like ...