“The challenge was to get the camera-to-subject distance just right and light them well enough to have them pop off the colorful background,” he told National Geographic in an email. (See the ...

Scientists first observed this comical behavior among day octopus in 2018 and 2019 in the Red Sea, which intrigued National Geographic Explorer ... Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. “ ...

Nevertheless, Emmanuel Gheerbrant, a researcher for the National Center for Scientific Research in France, speculates that Africa "must have been a laboratory for some very peculiar animals." ...

Though measuring animal intelligence is tricky ... Carolina at Chapel Hill and senior author of the study, told National Geographic at the time. "You're not likely to find these abilities in ...

Hairs trapped in cavities of the infamous lions that hunted humans in Kenya’s Tsavo region in 1898 revealed the surprising ...

The rulers of the skies, pterosaurs, had incredible and unique hands and feet, which reveal a lot more about them than their ...

Oct. 4, 2024 — Researchers discover that geckos use a mechanism usually associated with balance to sense vibrations, leading to new insights about how animals hear ...

But mother, it seemed, was not ready to let baby go. For 17 days in the summer of 2018, the orca swam with her offspring ...

If you haven’t given it much thought, you probably think non-human animals see the world the same way we do. The truth is the world looks very different to most other animals than it does to us. Most ...

Scientists analyzed hairs extracted from the broken teeth of two 19th century 'man-eater' lions. Their analysis revealed DNA from giraffe, human, oryx, waterbuck, wildebeest and zebra as prey, along ...

The giant sable antelope was first discovered in the early 20th century and went on to become Angola’s national animal. However, due to their striking horns, the antelopes soon became a target ...

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