Animals
- Animals
Big squid
Florida fishermen recently hauled in a squid that's like no other ever found in the Atlantic Ocean.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Cacophony acoustics
How do frogs hear each other in a noisy pond? Just the way we would, as it turns out.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Helping the cause of macaws
Scientists' discoveries about macaws may help these magnificent birds survive.
- Animals
Revenge of the cowbirds
Some cowbirds seem to force other birds to raise their chicks.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
A meal plan for birds
Scrub jays do a bird version of planning ahead for their next meal.
By Emily Sohn -
- Animals
Chicken eggs as drug factories
Researchers have created chickens that produce useful drugs in their eggs.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
G-Tunes with a Message
Apes known as gibbons can rearrange the notes of their songs to communicate with one another.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
The Littlest Lemurs
Studies of mouse lemurs may tell us something about our own origins.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
A tongue and a half
A nectar-sipping bat from South America has a skinny tongue that's longer than its body.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Lives of a mole rat
The toothy mammals known as mole rats have highly unusual bodies, brains, and social lives.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Chicken talk
Chickens can make meaningful sounds that, like words, refer to objects around them.
By Emily Sohn