When news broke last week of the death of Jane Goodall at age 91, Ron Arias was reminded of the time he’d spent with her for a PEOPLE magazine profile years ago — and two unforgettable scenes he ...

Humans aren’t the only animals with hot tempers. In 2016, ecologist Kristen Cecala and a colleague watched black-bellied salamanders (Desmognathus amphileucus) from Appalachian streams lunge at one ...

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Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Charles Darwin once noted that natural selection tends to preserve traits that conceal an animal in nature. It can paint camouflage onto their bodies with ...

Humans have caused wild animals to shrink and domestic animals to grow, according to a new study out of the University of Montpellier in southern France. Researchers studied tens of thousands of ...

The dog and animal lovers at Ginger Cat bring funny animal and human moments showing pure love. New North Korean "nuclear threat" to US homeland identified Michelle Wu responds to Bondi's warning ...

When we talk about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we are usually talking about human survivors of war, violence, or abuse. But what if the same patterns of psychological distress are found in ...

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For their safety, the whistleblowers featured in this exposé have been given pseudonyms. “Alex” and “Jesse”—staff members at St. Joseph’s Hospital—have bravely come forward to describe the ...

Humans have sharp senses, which we use explore our environment. Vibrations in the air, light, and chemicals in our food and in the air give us the information we need to survive. But some animals have ...

The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. Even during the ...