A new study is the first to show that an insect can differentiate between different durations of visual cues, like Morse code ...

For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are ...

B umblebees can separate dot-like and dash-like flashes in a way that resembles Morse code. Researchers at Queen Mary ...

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, mammals and birds have the largest brains in relation to their body size, ...

A study shows that bumblebees can be trained to tell the difference between long and short light flashes. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered, for the first time, that an ...

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

Try to imagine a brain the size of a tiny poppy seed. Believe it or not, scientists have just discovered a brain this small ...

Scientists compared genomes from 154 animal species and found that land animals share genetic tricks for surviving outside ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the ...

"Bird theory," a hypothetical making the rounds on social media, is being used to put relationships to the test. Here's what it means.