BIOLOGY

The brown-headed cowbird is never going to win any parenting awards.

Biologists think that images like these, which let them look at wolf howls instead of just listening to them, might help them better protect wolves.

Eels: As awesome as they are terrifying.

The giraffe's neck evolved in two stages, millions of years apart.

Coral reefs are in trouble. On these Pacific reefs, one of the major causes of coral loss is predation by the crown-of-thorns sea star.

Ambon damselfish were able to identify the correct fish face with 75 percent accuracy.

The phenomenon is so common it even has a name.

Scientists just confirmed what local fishermen have known for years.

Lots of beach-goers find seagulls annoying, but usually the only harm they do is snatching away poorly-guarded snacks. On one particular beach, though, scientists have found that some gulls have a much more aggressive and grisly way of getting their meals

A research team has taken the famously industrious ant down a peg, showing that many ants don’t do their fair share of work—or any work at all.

Chimerism is sibling rivalry at its most primal.

The smearwort (Aristolochia rotunda) dupes fruit flies into entering its flowers and then traps them there, getting pollinated without offering any reward.