A small yet fearsome bird was caught on camera hunting and killing a giant rodent on a UK golf course - despite being 6,000km from home. Mark Begg captured a rare sighting of the Steppe Grey Shrike, ...

Because the car had intermittently been started but not actually driven while we were away, it looked like chipmunks or mice or voles had clambered inside ... and reasonably cool during summer months.

This natural survival strategy, known as coprophagy, reveals how wildlife makes the most of every available resource.

The days of the mink could be numbered in the south-east of England as part of efforts to save nature’s “good guys”, the ...

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When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter I’ve been a stand-up and improv comic for 30 years, and I know for a fact ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

That’s great in theory, but in reality, that means voles — hamster-like rodents that love nothing more than to gnaw the bark off the base of a young redwood. It’s called girdling ...

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It's a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants ...

In many species, adult animals may exhibit caregiving or aggression towards conspecific offspring. The neural mechanisms underlying the infanticide and pup care remain poorly understood. Here, using ...