Here we are in the dead of winter with nighttime temperatures falling into single digits, and despite this I am seeing signs that the breeding season for wildlife has begun. On Jan. 15, Mary Alice and ...

For the first time, we know more than we ever expected to know about the sex lives of the majestic beluga whale. It's ...

Tiger sharks are typically solitary wanderers, and it wasn’t clear to scientists how they came together to reproduce. But as HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol reports, groundbreaking research from the ...

Beluga whales avoid inbreeding by switching partners over time, helping a small, isolated population stay genetically healthy ...

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Researchers in Alaska have discovered that beluga whales have lots of different partners and this “mate switching” could be ...

A 40-year-old Casper man on Wednesday admitted biting off the fingertip of a deputy as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

Whatever happened to the duck-billed dinosaur, it was a real pain in the butt. Many of the spines sitting atop the animal’s tail vertebrae had been fractured. The dinosaur, known as Olorotitan to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. These three bird courtship displays are so bold, precise ...

A squad of firefighters rescued a plump squirrel that weaseled its way into a dumpster in upstate New York on Christmas Eve. The intrepid firefighters with the Binghamton Fire Department rolled out of ...

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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” —Marcel Proust The practice of rituals, notably within groups, stems from our most ancient instincts for ...