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Can brainless animals think?
Even without brains, creatures like jellyfish and sea anemones can learn from experience.
How to watch 'Kingdom' — TV and streaming details for David Attenborough's new BBC series
It's billed as "one of the most ambitious wildlife series ever made" — here's how to watch David Attenborough's "Kingdom" online from anywhere.
Incredible, first-of-their-kind images show an orca being born in Norway — and the rest of its pod forming a protective circle
Scientists with the Norwegian Orca Survey and Orca Channel have documented, for the first time and in astounding detail, the birth of an orca and the newborn's first hour.
Can you speak cat? Scientists develop quiz that reveals how well you understand our feline friends
Cats are excellent at communicating, but humans still routinely misunderstand them.
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black
A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it was built by spiders we didn't know liked the company of others.
5 common mistakes beginner macro photographers make — and how to avoid them
New to macro photography? Avoid these 5 beginner mistakes and start capturing tiny worlds with big impact.
Which animals are tricked by optical illusions?
It's not just humans who notice optical illusions; certain animals do too, and they often use it to their advantage.
Orcas in the Gulf of California paralyze young great white sharks before ripping out their livers
An orca pod that made headlines last year for gutting a whale shark has struck again, this time perfecting a technique that involves paralyzing young great white sharks to eat their livers.
Chimps 'think about thinking' in order to weigh evidence and plan their actions, new research suggests
Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to change their minds, research shows.
Ancient 'frosty' rhino from Canada's High Arctic rewrites what scientists thought they knew about the North Atlantic Land Bridge
Researchers have gained new insights into rhinoceros evolution and the longevity of the North Atlantic Land Bridge from analyzing the perfectly preserved fossils of a "frosty" Arctic rhino.
