San Diego stands out as one of the happiest places to live, with sunny year-round weather, expansive coastlines, locally ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you ...

The love songs of these Panamanian frogs is a dinner bell for fringe-lipped bats. But how do they learn which frogs and toads ...

These 1,000-pound creatures travel in large herds and can smell water miles away. Now, the race is on to stop them from ...

Known for spending much of its life underground, the little-known American burying beetle could hold the key to developing ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

Scientists are closer than ever to deciphering sperm whale communication. Their breakthroughs could open the door to expanded ...

Photograph by Christian Ziegler By banding together in coalitions—meaning groups of two or more animals, but usually three to ...

For decades, scientists and surgeons around the world have been trying to solve the organ donor crisis. The answer could be ...