A sweeping genetic study of over 150 species reveals that life’s move from water to land was not a single story, but a series ...

A new paper examines the possible effects of two properties of receiver playing fields documented in studies of animal psychology -- habituation and neural adaptation -- on the efficacy of mate choice ...

Andrew Hess, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in interdepartmental genetics (animal breeding and genetics, with a statistics minor) from Iowa State University in 2016. He is an assistant professor of ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

Every organism must be able to respond to stimuli in its environment, but when animal sizes strain the limits of neuron ...

Animals that adapt behaviorally may evolve physically more slowly, showing resilience rather than weakness in changing environments.

A moving look at the subtle behaviors and emotional shifts that reveal when a shelter animal finally feels safe, secure, and ...