Elephants wear their biology in plain sight. Those sweeping ears are not a decorative afterthought but a set of oversized ...

For much of history, we lived happily without clocks, content with a vague understanding of where we were in the day. How, and when, did this change? Take a look.

The death of a well-known wild animal is an odd kind of news. It is intimate, because so many people feel they have met the ...

Kenyans are mourning the death of a beloved "super tusker" elephant named Craig. He lived in Amboseli National Park and ...

Scientists photograph the elusive ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, the source of the BW43 echolocation pulse, for the first time.

Nightingales are among the most celebrated of all animal singers, no doubt earning their place through the complexity of ...