Whether responding to the sudden pounce of a predator or the loss of balance before a harmful fall, an animal’s survival may ultimately depend on how quickly it can react. So neural delays — from ...

A French study has cast new light on how human activity has shaped the morphological evolution of animals over the last millennium. Conducted by researchers at the French National Centre for ...

Chewing: We don’t think about it, we just do it. But biologists don’t know a lot about how chewing behavior leaves telltale signs on the underlying bones. To find out, researchers at the Jacobs School ...

The new theoretical research proposes that animal size over time depends on two key ecological factors. The mystery behind why Alaskan horses, cryptodiran turtles and island lizards shrunk over time ...

Q. My brother (a basketball player) says giraffes are the biggest land animals because they are the tallest. How do scientists determine what the biggest animals are? A. Scientists, as well as people ...

If you throw a huge party, there’s more of a chance of problems than if you host a quiet get-together for a couple of friends. The logic is simple: Having more people around means more opportunities ...

Q. You wrote that blue whales are the largest mammals. What are the largest and smallest animals of other groups? What ecological problems do animals confront by being extremely big or extremely small ...

Give Felisa Smith a time machine and she’d know exactly which era to visit, no questions. She’d set the dial back 15,000 years or so and head straight to modern-day New Mexico. The scene in front of ...

The mystery behind why Alaskan horses, cryptodiran turtles and island lizards shrunk over time may have been solved in a new study. The new theoretical research proposes that animal size over time ...

Q. My brother (a basketball player) says giraffes are the biggest land animals because they are the tallest. How do scientists determine what the biggest animals are? A. Scientists, as well as people ...