Author: Jake Buehler

Octopuses are ambidextrous, a new study finds, but they favor their front arms for investigating surroundings and their back arms for locomotion.

A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly to islands and slowing. But others argue this is all just semantics.

To make horses rideable during domestication, people may have inadvertently targeted a mutation in horses to strengthen their backs and their balance.

Historic European accounts long described the canids as domesticated dogs. A new study suggests that’s probably not true.

In light-polluted landscapes, birds’ singing time is an average of 50 minutes longer per day. It’s still unclear if this hurts bird health or helps.