Animals

  1. Animals

    Cool Jobs: Scents of science

    Better understanding of the sense of smell inspires research into everything from whales to electronic ‘noses’

    By Pippa Wysong
  2. Animals

    By a whisker

    Hardly a fad: Some facial hair serves important functions, scientists find.

    By Sharon Pochron
  3. Animals

    Monkeys’ mistake detector

    Specific brain cells in macaques respond to fellow animal’s error.

    By Roberta Kwok
  4. Animals

    Python-palooza!

    Monster-sized Burmese python bearing record-number of eggs retrieved in the Florida Everglades.

    By Janet Raloff
  5. Animals

    A trout’s nose-y magnets

    Cells in a fish’s snout respond to magnets.

    By Stephen Ornes
  6. Animals

    Cool Jobs: Studying what you love

    Researchers study the same animals that fascinated them as kids.

    By Roberta Kwok
  7. Animals

    Chimp’s gift for numbers

    Translating numbers into colors may explain an animal’s apparent memory trick.

    By Stephen Ornes
  8. Animals

    Bye-bye, George

    Ambassador of endangered species everywhere dies from old age.

    By Janet Raloff
  9. Animals

    Skeeters ride the rain

    Mosquitoes survive collisions with raindrops by going with the flow.

    By Stephen Ornes
  10. Animals

    Mammals feel the heat

    Scientists predict some animals won’t be able to keep up with Earth’s increasing temperatures.

    By Stephen Ornes
  11. Animals

    Jelly babies

    Population of jellyfish-like creatures contains only young animals, no adults.

    By Roberta Kwok
  12. Animals

    Caecilians: The other amphibian

    Legless creatures live secretive, strange existences underground and underwater.

    By Roberta Kwok