Fingertips of Suriname toads are hypersensitive motion detectors, new study reveals

The ability to learn and apply rules lies at the heart of cognition. In a seminal study, Marcus et al. (1999) reported that 7-month-old infants learned abstract rules over syllable sequences and were...

COLOMBO —  As dusk settled over the paddy fields at Puwakpitiya, a village on the northern edge of Knuckles Mountain Range locally known as Dumbara mountains in Central Sri Lanka, researchers began…

Nick Hulbert-Williams argues that what looks like low morale and change fatigue in HE may really be a crisis of belonging

Die Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft zeichnet den Biopsychologen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum für seine hervorragenden und originellen Leistungen aus.

Rapid learning, memory, and generalization are often attributed to circuits of the neocortex and hippocampus, but their specific role remains unclear. To examine these cognitive abilities together in ...

Find out about the European Congress for Behavioural Biology (ECBB) 2026, taking place from 1-4 September at ARU in Cambridge.

To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac — a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any other animal.

Restudy of a challenging fossil using cross-polarized light imaging and phylogenetic reconstruction identifies Chosha praecursor, a probable early-diverging insect, helping to bridge the longstanding ...

Among the extant endemic carnivorans of Madagascar (family Eupleridae), the largest species is the fosa, Cryptoprocta ferox. A larger species, Cryptoprocta spelea, survived into the Late Holocene. ...

The Rancho La Brea and McKittrick asphalt seeps of California have produced exceptionally rich Cenozoic fossil assemblages, preserving late Pleistocene to Holocene fauna from distinct environmental...

Do you illustrate birds? We are looking for frontispiece illustrators for our journal!

We discuss a historical report of chimpanzees Pan troglodytes using stone tools to forage for large oysters Crassostrea tulipa at the Sierra Leone River estuary in 1678, a behaviour that was also note...