The behaviour of plants is invisible to the naked human eye. They operate on timescales our imaginations can’t entertain, and they run roughshod over familiar categories of self, other and community.

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the ...

Our planet is full of incredible animals, and new creatures are being discovered every year. The way that animals have adapted to survive is fascinating, with some developing close relationships with ...

A new study suggests chimpanzees don't just perform self-care—in some cases, they look out for each other. Elodie Freymann Chimpanzees use medicinal plants to perform first aid on others, according to ...

May 14 (UPI) --New research sheds light on how chimpanzees self-medicate wounds with plants and provide aid to other chimps. A new report published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and ...

Few living things seem to have less in common than plants and animals, but that assumption is being increasingly challenged. Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom of plants and the kingdom of ...

Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Natural Intelligence. From a bat's shrill speech to a peacock's mating call, environmental researcher Karen Bakker studied the sounds of nature. She wrote ...

North Country farmers are starting new plants and birthing new calves, lambs and kids. "It's one of the busiest times on a livestock farm and everyone can be run ragged, but it's also a pretty ...

Long before TikTok and probiotics, animals were teaching each other tips on feeling better, from swallowing leaves to get rid of parasites to using icebergs for exfoliation. In the early 2010s, ...