What’s lurking in and around the rainforest canopy? That’s a hard question to answer, especially in tall and dense forests. Traditional tracking methods, like camera traps, often miss out on elusive ...

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, there is a real river that steams like a cauldron and reaches temperatures above 90°C. It is so hot that falling into the wrong section can cause severe burns in seconds, ...

Abigail Morris first visited the Peruvian Amazon when she was 6 years old. Now, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Animal Behavior ...

“In a community-based conservation system, if everything is built correctly, then not only is there no overhunting, there is ...

While the Zoo was closed, staff members captured some rare scenes of the animals experiencing the falling snow.

Captive wild animal encounters are hugely popular, thanks partly to social media. But our investigation shows many creatures ...

Joy—fleeting woo-hoo moments like "catching the perfect wave"—is felt by many diverse animals, and researchers want to know how they express it in various situations and why.

Fundamentally, what moves people is when they believe they’re fighting for something that’s part of them. If it’s purely ...

Panda diplomacy has a long history in China, dating back more than 1,300 years. Historical records show that the Empress Wu ...

A research team from Munich has identified a previously unknown communication mechanism in harvestmen. Five closely related ...

Del Boy, Rodney and Raquel have swapped Peckham for the Cotswolds after a public vote to name three penguin chicks. The Only Fools and Horses characters have new namesakes in the form of the trio, ...

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, countries around the world committed to striving towards net-zero ...