If you’ve ever been out in the New Zealand wilderness, you might have heard a distinctive, low-frequency tone. It sounds less ...

The chick has long downy feathers that resemble irritant hairs in some caterpillar species native to the area.

A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks.

Many animals must sneak up on their prey to ensure that they can manage to catch a good meal. Whether it's a big cat slinking ...

The discovery disputes the common theory that the cuttlefish uses a form of hypnotization to capture its prey; the prey likely just doesn’t even see the cuttlefish, and rather a confusing patterned ...

While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic skin display to avoid detection in last moments of approach, researchers at the University of ...

While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic skin display to avoid detection in the last moments of approach, ...

Cuttlefish aren’t just masters of disguise – they're illusionists of the sea. Researchers discovered that broadclub cuttlefish use a dazzling display of downward-moving stripes on their skin to sneak ...

The size and shape of a giraffe’s spots seem to influence how well the animals survive when temperatures get hotter or colder ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is ...

A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy.