In Yellowstone, the long, rising howl of a gray wolf has always felt like pure mystery, a sound that hints at meaning but ...

You can teach your dog to "speak" with the best dog talking buttons. Our top picks are recordable buttons from Fluent Pet and Hunger for Words.

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets ...

University of Victoria (UVic) biologists have discovered that even closely related fish species make unique and distinctive ...

Some animals have a very different relationship to aging than we do: They don’t get cancer, they never go through menopause, and they live absurdly long lives. For instance, one bat species can live ...

In the 1960s, Yale University researcher Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments that soon became famous—or notorious, depending on one’s point of view. Each student participant was ...

At Denver's main animal shelter, roughly 300 animals hang out, hoping to get adopted. Entering one room, you’ll find Leilani, a boxer, Milk Dud, a pit bull and at the end of a row of enclosures, a ...

Learning animal sounds as a child is a usual rite of passage for kids. Parents, older siblings, and other caregivers practice these sounds naturally with kids during play and reading. According to ...

As scientists use machine learning to decode the sounds of whales, dogs, and dolphins, opinions vary on how best to deploy the technology. Reading time 7 minutes Chirps, trills, growls, howls, squawks ...