Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The spiny softshell turtle has the most evolutionary distinctiveness out of all of the animals known to live in Canada, according ...

What is the 'most Canadian' animal? Spoiler: it's not the beaver, or the moose. A new study ranks species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the ...

New research suggests beluga whales can recognize themselves in mirrors, a cognitive ability previously demonstrated in only ...

In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an underlying ...

A new analysis of GPS tracking data from 37 animal species, paired with cellphone location data from across the United States ...

In the past, when researchers modeled quadruped gaits — how four-legged organisms walk, run and move — gaits have been modeled with separate neural networks, according to Professor and Associate Chair ...

A large international team of scientists sequenced the genomes of 151 Portuguese men o’ war from across their range throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans (Figure 1b) and discovered these ...