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Submerged electric eels lose current to water, so they apparently leap into the air to minimize their contact with water and maximize their shock value.  

A chance observation led researchers to add the Australian Magpie to the short list of birds that dunk their food in water before eating.  

The 2011 east Japan tsunami swept huge amounts of wreckage out to sea—and Japanese species hitchhiked across the Pacific on the debris. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Jonathan Losos, biology professor at Harvard and curator of herpetology at the university’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, talks about his latest book, Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance and the Future of Evolu...

Individuals in packs of African wild dogs appear to sneeze to make their wishes known regarding when to get up and hunt.

The frogs' calls are too high-pitched for the frog to detect, which may be an artifact of evolution. Christopher Intagliata reports.

More reflective telescope mirrors allow astronomers to capture more photons—and do more science. Christopher Intagliata reports.

A new study hints that the most energetic particles ever seen come from far beyond the Milky Way.  

A trove of scientific notes from the early 1900s suggests a warming climate is driving birds to migrate earlier to New York’s Mohonk Preserve. Julia Rosen reports.

As temperatures rise, the tree line moves upslope. But ancient bristlecone pines are losing that upslope race to faster-colonizing neighbors. Christopher Intagliata reports.