Biologists attached tiny recording devices that looked like mini backpacks to bats. What they found revealed a surprising ...

A horse’s whinny is an iconic sound, arguably on par with a cow’s moo and a sheep’s baa and a donkey’s hee-haw. Most people can immediately recognize a horse’s signature sound, so it might come as a ...

Noise pollution is affecting bird behavior across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to find food and avoid predators, a large-scale new analysis showed on Wednesday.

Deep into the Panamanian night, the forest hums with sound. Chirping insects form a steady backdrop, rain softly trickles from leaves. Somewhere above ...

Bird wing shape -- a proxy for long-distance flying ability, or dispersal -- is a trait that influences biodiversity patterns on islands around the world, according to biologists. You can know a lot ...

Scientists studying data collected over more than three decades found accelerating losses. Their research offers clues about the causes.

A few small rodents like rats and mice whistle like this, but horses are the first known large mammal to have a knack for it. They’re also the only animals known to be able to whistle through their ...

Maximum gross weight for the SW-51 is 1,874 pounds, although von Kessel said that testing is underway to increase that to 2,100. The airplane I flew had a useful load of 461 pounds. With full fuel, it ...

Sign up here to follow Laura’s columns by email. They say wild turkeys, even the ones in your neighborhood, are somewhat intelligent. They can solve puzzles. They can use city crosswalks. They can ...

Flapping-wing robo-bird uses two tails to fly fast or slow Many readers will remember the MetaFly, a remote-control robotic insect that flies by actually flapping its wings. Well, its inventor is back ...

Speech without enforceable consequence undermines the social contract. Trust, cooperation, and democratic deliberation all rely on the assumption that speakers are bound by what they say.

Bayern Munich midfielder Leon Goretzka has clarified his strange goal celebration in Saturday afternoon’s Bundesliga victory over Werder Bremen. Goretzka effectively put the game to bed with the ...