A large-scale analysis of 117 mammal species found that preventing reproduction is associated with longer lifespans, suggesting a strong link between reproductive activity and life expectancy. Why do ...

Studying wild rock doves gives us a rare chance to establish how one of science’s model species lives in nature. This may ...

Researchers study house sparrow genetics to understand survival, evolution, and how species respond to environmental change.

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Animal rescues are already filled with cats and kittens, so they can’t take in any more. That leaves the solution of trapping and fixing stray and feral cats to keep them from reproducing hundreds of ...

Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the color of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even ...

Countries under the international treaty to protect migratory animals have proposed increasing protections for 42 species.

From coyotes swimming to the largest natural island in the San Francisco Bay to hitchhiking seagulls, 2025 proved that the ...

Meet animals that grow for a lifetime, sometimes for centuries, and discover why dinosaurs did not, despite their huge size.

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

This video uncovers the fascinating truth behind animals that can reproduce without any involvement from males. Scientists explain how these rare species use a process known as parthenogenesis to ...

For decades, biologists have suspected a fundamental bargain in nature: energy spent making offspring is energy not spent maintaining the body. A sweeping new analysis led by the University of Otago ...