Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The spiny softshell turtle has the most evolutionary distinctiveness out of all of the animals known to live in Canada, according ...

Many people commonly refer to pale, leopard-like animals as white panthers. In reality, the white panther is not really a distinct species. White panther is actually a general term that is attributed ...

What is the 'most Canadian' animal? Spoiler: it's not the beaver, or the moose. A new study ranks species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the ...

A large international team of scientists sequenced the genomes of 151 Portuguese men o’ war from across their range throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans (Figure 1b) and discovered these ...

From the mighty bison roaming North America to the awe-inspiring blue whale in the ocean depths, animals that start with the ...

In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an underlying ...

Cooperative hunting, resource sharing, and using the same signals to communicate the same information -- these are all examples of cultural sharing that have been observed between distinct animal ...

An international team of researchers have published a new review in Animal Behavior revealing how communication enables cooperation between different animal species. The review, titled "The ecology ...

What is the “most Canadian” animal? Spoiler: it’s not the beaver, or the moose. Published today in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist, the study from a team of Simon Fraser University ...