Animals

In a new nature documentary about matriarchal species, the males are mostly absent

Periodical cicadas have a clever hack to help them figure out when to emerge after more than a decade underground

Rat remains from shipwrecks and dig sites show how two rodent species duked it out in eastern North America

Unique patterns of neuron activation help tiny birds catalog thousands of scattered food caches

To learn how to move, groom itself and flap its wings, a fruit fly AI devoured hours of video of real insects

“Resident” and “transient” killer whales, or orcas, have unique hunting habits and genetics, proving they are in fact separate species

Scientists are finally getting their hands on enough data to begin to understand how animals react to a total solar eclipse

Like humans, these small Japanese birds communicate abstract concepts with gestures

The summer “kitten season” is starting earlier and lasting longer, which is bad news for both animal shelters and wildlife

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes use social cues to decide where to lay their eggs, scientists discover

When zooming forward, hummingbirds rely on a unique internal “cruise control”

Thirsty cicadas produce more powerful jets of urine than some mammals