As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology responsibly

Abstract. Pinnipeds (true seals, eared seals and walruses) are the only mammals that can hear effectively in both air and water. How and when they achieved

The hippocampus exhibits a CA3-to-CA1 coding transformation that combines fast learning with an efficient, compressed neural code.

In this study, we show that male sperm whales produce low-frequency slow clicks at low repetition rates with extreme source levels > 200 dB re 1 µPa (pp), making them the loudest mammalian communicat...

The arcuate fasciculus (af) is a crucial dorsal pathway underpinning human language, yet its weak frontal connectivity in macaques—the standard pri...

Timmy, a humpback whale stranded in Germany 6 weeks ago, was ailing and may already be dead

A leading neuroscientist describes the long evolutionary process that led to the human brain

The Stellar sea lion reportedly sounds like a falling tree when he belly flops onto floats.

Harbour seals 'talk' with their parrot-like brains, 'flaming hot' ice in Uranus and Neptune, Yellowstone's wolves and ravens, a thigh bone from the earliest human and the future of animal testing

Mental imagery allows us to remember previous experiences and imagine new ones. Animal studies have yielded rich insight into mechanisms for visual perception, but the neural mechanisms for visual imagery remain poorly understood. We determined that ...

Flexible, abstract rhythm perception underpins human music, dance, and speech, but thus far, it has only been demonstrated in a few birds and mammals. In this work, we show that bumble bees also form ...

Each month, The Transmitter explores creative approaches neuroscientists are taking to solve problems that arise in their research. In this installment, we see how researchers work backward from speci...

Dolphins washing up on the shores of Patagonia may have been fleeing orcas in the area

How does the brain retrieve motor skills? This study shows that the default mode network actively reinstates past connectivity patterns to accelerate relearning, revealing a neural mechanism for…

Abstract. Combinatoriality is the capacity to combine discrete vocal elements into larger structures. Previously thought unique to human language, combinat

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Cognition is an animal's real-time adaptation system for responding to change. Rapid environmental change, often anthropogenic, is expanding the range and severity of challenges confronting wild anim...

Today, prominent Congressional Democrats led members of their party in demanding the Trump administration withdraw their proposed rules that would effectively dismantle the Endangered Species Act.

Discover Animals - Formants are resonance frequencies shaped by the upper vocal tract. Across vertebrates, they have a key role in acoustic communication. Humans show fine-grained control of...

Calcium imaging of mouse hippocampal neurons while mice learn a reward-based task over several weeks provides insight into the evolution of the hippocampal reward representation during extended periods of experience.

Analyses of hundreds of thousands of papers in the natural sciences reveal a paradox: scientists who use AI tools produce more research but on a more confined set of topics.