Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt,” according to a new study. Photo from Venti Views, UnSplash It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh-pooh.

Species conservation succeeds only when it strengthens whole ecosystems. Focusing on a single animal can harm the broader web ...

The brain is the basic functioning organ behind living creatures. But as nature is endowed with limitless surprises, it is no ...

A moose, a deer and a fox walk into a tunnel. It might sound like the setup for a joke, but it's actually a scene that wildlife ecologist Patricia Cramer captured while studying how animals use ...

Tracking units on the shell of a wood turtle. The tracking information these GPS units collect is used to understand how wood turtles move throughout the year. Image credit: Smithsonian's Movement of ...