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New University of Maryland research suggests that dinosaur parenting strategies helped transform the Mesozoic world, as “latchkey kid dinosaurs” spread into ecological niches their parents left ...
Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three ...
Not all animals are born small and helpless. Learn about the animals whose babies walk minutes after birth, including why and ...
Smokey Bear. Ham the Space Chimp. Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling. Not many animals reach celebrity status, but it’s a bit of a tradition here at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. In January, we rolled out ...
Shankland's award-winning interdisciplinary book examines our dominance of and affection for animals and how empathy toward ...
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For some parents in Nepal, child-rearing involves competing to have their daughters selected and sequestered as living ...
From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more ...
And, researchers have just discovered, ancient bees would use the bones’ empty tooth sockets as nests. A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science documents this discovery, which ...
People think they sleep a lot but there are animals that sleep way more than them. They nap for days or weeks which helps ...
That was the word last night from two of the researchers who have seen the calf up close, Mark Sears and Maya Sears, the West ...