One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Learn how mapping gene-control switches in an ancient sea anemone reveals how identical DNA can produce many different cell ...

In the penultimate episode of Crash Course Zoology, we use everything we've learned so far to try and figure out what a "species" even is anyway! As you'll see, the incredible diversity of animals ...

The animal world is full of different types of intelligence, from the simple bodily coordination of jellyfish to the navigation abilities of bees, the complex songs of birds, and the imaginative ...

Picture an “animal” in your mind right now. What does it look like? A dog? A lion? Maybe a sloth, pangolin, naked mole-rat, or even just a human? There’s a good chance that you imagined a mammal, ...

Are you familiar with asexual animals? Asexual animals reproduce without involving sex or traditional fertilization. While this might sound strange, it’s actually quite natural—and even helps many ...

Eat almost anything. Sleep almost anywhere. These, it seems, are the secrets to surviving in the city as a wild animal. Among the species that dominate urban spaces—pigeons, cockroaches, rats, ...

Coconut crabs are massive. Up to three feet in diameter, they scuttle across remote tropical islands in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean, cracking open coconuts like they’re made of butter, eating ...

PLUM GROVE, Texas (KTRK) -- The sounds of goats and donkeys are missing from Ima Survivor Animal Sanctuary in Liberty County. Usually, there are different types of animals across the sanctuary, but ...

Andrew Barron receives funding from Templeton World Charity Foundation Project Grant TWCF-2020-2539 The animal world is full of different types of intelligence, from the simple bodily coordination of ...