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Economist: Animals think, therefore… The inner lives of animals are hard to study. But there is evidence that they may be a lot richer...

Wikipedia Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? Scientists Have The Answer -- The Guardian There have been many explanations for the zebra’s i...

My Comment: Their instincts are clearly at play. Hat Tip : Geek Press

Why Dogs Can Be Tamed But Wolves Cannot -- Science 2.0   Wolves and dogs are genetically very similar, so why did dogs become "man...

Mysterious Marine Monster Caught In Video -- Discovery News A strange creature allegedly filmed by underwater drillers in the deep ocean on ...

Tragic: Northern white rhinos are extinct in the wild. This photo, taken in 2000, is of a young male with his mother Najin at a Zoo in the E...

The largest land predator of its time, the South American giant short-faced bear (Arctotherium angustidens), in comparison to a person. Cred...

From Live Science: On Labor Day, we celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of American workers. But humans aren't the only ones...

From Time Magazine: Forty years ago, Richard O'Barry watched Kathy, a dolphin in the 1960s television show Flipper, kill herself. Or so ...

From New Scientist: Jonathan Balcombe believes that we have allowed intelligence to become the measure with which we determine how well to t...

New research identifies the 'speed gene' contributing to a specific athletic trait in thoroughbred horses. (Credit: iStockphoto/Dere...

From US News And World Report: One afternoon while participating in studies in a University of Oxford lab, Abel snatched a hook away from Be...

Prairie dogs are highly social and live in large colonies that can span hundreds of acres of the grasslands of North America Photo: ALAMY ...

Good sports: Apes advance the concept of fair play by helping to keep games going and giving younger competitors the advantage From The Dail...

From the BBC: The ancestors of the current mammals found on the island of Madagascar could have been transported on floating vegetation from...

Observations of chimpanzees could shed light on when our human ancestors first controlled fire. Andrew Aiken / Rex Features From The Indepen...

When scientists melted diamond under high temperatures and pressure and then resolidified, the solid diamond chunks floated on top of liquid...

Marv Hagedorn, an Idaho state representative and hunter, hunting for wolves in the Boise Mountains with his son, John, ahead. Paul Hosefros ...

Watch CBS Videos Online From CBS: Biologist Explains How a Dying Bat Population Results in Damage to Forests and Farms. CBS) The race is on...

From Live Science: Many Americans think of Labor Day as merely the end of summer and part of a welcome three-day weekend. Its origin, howeve...