A cuddly island mystery
The mass death of 200,000 saiga provides a dark omen for what might happen to wildlife in a changing world.
What Snowball the parrot’s spontaneous moves teach us about ourselves
New research confirms that elephant trunks don’t just blow—they can also suck.
Determining who and what is or is not sentient is one of the defining questions of almost any moral code.
The lying that we humans do requires a more sophisticated kind of cognition than a bird, flower, or fungus can muster.
A decade ago, the world’s heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. Now the 3,000-pound mark is within sight.