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'It's nature calling to humans, and humans deciding whether or not to reply': Why we need to start paying attention to our mutually beneficial relationships with other species -
'Parasites of human societies': How did we end up so close to cats?30 Comments -
'Their greatest challenge since they stared down the asteroid': Paleontologist Steve Brusatte on why birds are facing their biggest existential threat since the dino-killing asteroid4 Comments
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City birds appear to like men more than women, but experts have no idea whyAn analysis of 37 urban bird species found that men could get slightly closer to the avians than women could, suggesting that these animals recognize sex differences in humans.
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'I'm more hopeful that birds can endure than maybe even our own species': Paleontologist Steve Brusatte on why birds are the ultimate survivors
Interview In a new book, paleontologist Steve Brusatte tells the wild story of how birds evolved during the Jurassic and took to the skies, surviving the asteroid strike that killed their fellow dinosaurs.
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'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaursIn this excerpt from "The Story of Birds", author Steve Brusatte explores the moment where paleontologists realized they had critical evidence to show birds came from dinosaurs — a fluffy fossil from China.
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Mystery of golden orb found in depths of ocean off Alaska finally solved: 'Everyone was like, What the heck? What is that?'A two-and-a-half-year-old mystery concerning a strange golden object found miles below the sea surface isn't an egg or sponge — it's from an anemone-like animal.
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Why do cats and dogs shake their heads?Life's Little Mysteries Cats often flick their heads back and forth as if they've been possessed. This strange reflex has a simple explanation.
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'Kraken' octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the oceanA close inspection of 27 fossil jaws from finned octopuses challenge the longstanding belief that the apex oceanic predators of the Cretaceous were all vertebrates.
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Bruce the parrot is missing his upper beak — but that hasn't stopped him from becoming an undefeated jousting championA kea parrot in New Zealand who lost the top part of his beak when young has developed a new way to fight other males that has made him unbeatable.
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Naked mole rats wage bloody wars of succession to choose a new queen — but one colony did something scientists have never seen beforeWhen their queen dies, naked mole rat females usually wage bloody battles of succession. But peace may be possible, a new study suggests
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Can chickens really run around with their heads cut off?There's lore about chickens surviving from seconds to months after their heads are chopped off, but what does the science say?
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