Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt,” according to a new study. Photo from Venti Views, UnSplash It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh-pooh.

The brain is the basic functioning organ behind living creatures. But as nature is endowed with limitless surprises, it is no ...

Species conservation succeeds only when it strengthens whole ecosystems. Focusing on a single animal can harm the broader web ...

A moose, a deer and a fox walk into a tunnel. It might sound like the setup for a joke, but it's actually a scene that wildlife ecologist Patricia Cramer captured while studying how animals use ...

Tracking units on the shell of a wood turtle. The tracking information these GPS units collect is used to understand how wood turtles move throughout the year. Image credit: Smithsonian's Movement of ...