Zebra stripes help with camouflage, confuse predators, and regulate body temperature. Some studies also suggest stripes deter ...

Tina and Milo, the ermine and stoat mascots of the upcoming 2026 Olympic Games in Italy, are already everywhere -– smiling on stuffed animals, posters, mugs and T-shirts. But it's another story for ...

An international research team has succeeded in deciphering a key mechanism that controls the growth of pancreatic cancers.

The cancer gene MYC camouflages tumours by suppressing alarm signals that normally activate the immune system. This finding ...

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through ...

People often look to indigenous traditions for spiritual guidance, and these 25 Native American animals and their meanings will offer you just that.

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) ...

In this viral video, a saltwater crocodile is in water, lying in wait and covered in algae. It then slowly sinks beneath the surface without making a ripple. It’s a short clip, but horrifyingly ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

Researchers in Canada have found that the presence of wildlife within cities is increasing, and rising global temperatures may be a contributing factor. Research in Canada increasingly shows that ...

The interplay between camouflage and aposematism, two major survival strategies in the animal kingdom, is explored. A new study investigates how local environmental conditions, such as predator ...