No ears, no problem. The tobacco hornworm caterpillar, a common garden pest, can actually detect airborne sound via microscopic hairs on its body, according to a team of faculty and graduate students ...

Researchers have known for centuries that some fish make sounds. Now, using special underwater acoustics, researchers have ...

Cellphones around San Francisco buzzed late Monday night with a very unusual alert: A young mountain lion had been spotted ...

Joy—fleeting woo-hoo moments like "catching the perfect wave"—is felt by many diverse animals, and researchers want to know how they express it in various situations and why.

Research suggests that dolphins develop a lifelong vocal “name.” Here’s how they evolved this high level of social identity, once thought to be uniquely human.