The striped hyena is the smallest of the hyena subspecies and the only one found outside Africa. Unlike its larger spotted cousin, striped hyenas tend to be solitary or live in small groups, and ...

Optimal cue integration, Bayesian Causal Inference, spatial orienting, speech illusions and other key phenomena in audiovisual perception naturally emerge from the collective behavior of a population ...

I'm sure we've all met a few toxic personalities in our time, but someone who is truly venomous isn't likely, but does that ...

The first study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, found that wild boars in the Czech ...

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold. As a rule, ...

It is hard to be attentive to all the information that is around us; we need to focus on particular signals or sensory ...

Summary: A global study of vertebrates reveals that body temperature is the key driver behind brain size evolution. Warm-blooded species like mammals and birds can maintain the energy demands of ...

If you look at the list of current PWHL team names, there’s not a lot of crossover with other sports leagues. We can probably safely rule out Ravens for this reason, even if it would be pretty badass ...

There is yet another rumpus brewing over the National Trust. Readers will no doubt say that there always is. But this one is ...

Greater Manchester homebuilders Barratt and David Wilson Homes are encouraging residents to help their prickly nocturnal neighbours with a series of top tips to help keep native hedgehogs safe this ...

In the Gulf Of California, a group of orcas have developed specialized shark-hunting skills that mean they can make short ...

Walk&Talk, launched in 2011 as a celebration of street art, this year hosts an abundance of works by more than 80 artists in nine venues around the island of São Miguel ...