Ronan, a 15-year-old California sea lion, has shaken up how science thinks of music with her ability to bob and move to the ...

Animal research on biomusicality, which looks at whether different species are capable of behaving in ways that show they recognize aspects of music, including rhythm and beat, remains a tantalizing ...

What is particularly notable about Ronan is that she can learn to dance to a beat without learning to sing or talk musically.

Not many animals have shown an ability to identify and move to a beat -- with humans, parrots and some primates being notable exceptions. But then there’s Ronan, a bright-eyed sea lion that’s caused ...

A forensic artist has recreated the face of the Roman gladiator who was mauled by a lion in York. Last week, scientists revealed bite marks found on the pelvis of a skeleton discovered in a Roman ...

The internet's latest absurd obsession is: who would win in a no-rules fight between 100 average human men and one adult male ...

For years, scientists believed that rhythm was a skill exclusively reserved to humans, out of all mammals. But a rescue sea ...

If you look at Roman texts and artworks, you’ll see a lot of depictions of gladiators fighting each other or […] ...

Ronan was slightly more variable beat to beat than adult humans. She also tended to hit ahead of the beat when listening to ...

A California sea lion named Ronan became an internet star when a video of her bobbing her head in sync to the Backstreet Boys ...