This lesson is about some of the things animals do to keep what goes on inside their bodies perfectly balanced, and few things are more important to keep balanced than body temperature. If animals get ...

It’s hard to know what the world looks like to animals, but scientists have developed a new technology to help with that. If you haven’t given it much thought, you probably think non-human animals see ...

Do animals dream? Decades of sleep studies leave the impression that non-human nocturnal lives are just as fascinating as our own. Anyone with a dog probably takes for granted the existence of animal ...

Megalopta genalis is a species of the family Halictidae, otherwise known as the sweat bees. The bee is native to Central and South America (United States Geological Survey) On a moonless night, light ...

Hibernation is a survival strategy animals use when food is scarce, especially during winter. All animals need energy to stay alive, but when cold weather makes food hard to find, some animals slow ...

Discover how penguins, frigatebirds, and seals adapt to sleep in extreme conditions, balancing survival and rest.

If you build a pond, wildlife will find it. But how? There, at the bottom of the emptied pond, wriggled an unexpected cadre of eels. This body of water was huge, originally designed as an outdoor ...

Dogs and cats don’t just communicate with their tails; they have other ways that allow humans to understand the emotions they ...

The last solar eclipse of 2025 will be gracing the skies on September 21st. A partial one, the eclipse will be visible in the southern hemisphere to places such as Australia, Antarctica, the Pacific ...

Seeing through one eye or many, in technicolour or black and white, few animals experience the world as we do. By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would ...