To survive in the harsh wild, many animals turn to drastic measures for food. An example of this is a feeding strategy known ...

Benjamin Beck, an authority on "tooling," offers a state-of-the art clarification of this fascinating behavior and why it's essential to know more about the nitty-gritty details.

Scientists studying the behavior of wild octopuses off the coast of Australia have made a strange discovery, with the creatures caught hurling silt, algae and even shells at one another. The finding ...

The top row shows variation in a zooplankton, Daphnia: the morph on the right is produced in the presence of a predator cue. The second row shows an example of dimorphic variation in horn length, ...

I highlight surprising examples of animal intelligence that even scientists didn’t expect.