The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

From tiger stripes to leopard spots, the animal world is full of distinctive and intricate patterns. In a new study, CU ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

From blood-squirting lizard eyes to zombie cockroaches, the natural world is ready for a truly terrifying Halloween.

It is hard to be attentive to all the information that is around us; we need to focus on particular signals or sensory ...

A project which researches the optimum low energy extraction method needed to process cultivated kelp, resulting in soil ...

Rare animal behaviors were captured in a new BBC wildlife documentary series. The series, titled “Kingdom” and narrated by biologist Sir David Attenborough, follows leopards, hyenas, ...

New research reveals that people aren’t just imagining it—dogs and their owners share striking similarities, from matching hairstyles to mirrored temperaments. Hope, an Afghan hound, sports the same ...

Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers listener questions about the natural world. “I am wondering why animals lick their wounds. . . . I see my dog do it, but I don't think ...

Protein hydrolysates are mixtures of amino acids, peptides, and other small organic molecules derived from the controlled ...

The role of megafaunal exploitation in early human evolution remains debated. Occasional use of large carcasses by early hominins has been considered by some as opportunistic, possibly a fallback ...