"We discovered, to my great surprise and joy, that hedgehogs can hear up to 85kHz" Rasmussen said. Humans can hear up to 20kHz, and all sounds above that are called ultrasound. Cats hear up to 45kHz, ...

Back to the bat. Its DNA doesn’t “contain” echolocation like a blueprint contains a house plan. What exists is an integrated auditory-brain-body-behaviour system that only emerges when genes encounter ...

A new UBC study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

A new book from Rebecca Solnit, promising to bring us hope in these “difficult times”, is among our pick of popular science titles out this month – along with a guide on how to talk to AI, and a look ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

Discover the brain science behind how birds learn to sing, from song nuclei to social cues and critical learning windows.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eats steak for breakfast, and has been accused by family members of blending up mice and chickens to feed his hawks and cutting off a dead whale’s head to bring it home. But he ...

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

In the rapidly disappearing Atlantic Forest, mosquitoes are adapting to a human-dominated landscape. Scientists found that many species now prefer feeding on people rather than the forest’s diverse ...

Karthik Sankaranarayanan trained in two quite different scientific subfields as a graduate student and as a postdoctoral ...