Some wild animals are relatively easy to study. Certain penguin populations, for instance, are so unaccustomed to large predators that they barely fear humans and will often wander right up to ...

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 ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Researchers have been dreaming of an Internet of Animals. They’re getting closer to monitoring 100,000 creatures—and revealing hidden facets of our shared world. There was something strange about the ...

Qatar Airways Cargo has opened its state-of-the-art Animal Centre and relaunched its Next Generation Live product. As a leading transporter, with over 550,000 animals including 10,000 horses flown in ...

Jim Sullivan, a 75-year-old naturalist who lives in the forests outside Occidental, has made a name for himself as an animal tracker. A West County native whose family has been here since 1873, ...

Why it matters: Usually, tracking wildlife involves using GPS trackers, which are expensive and power-hungry. However, researchers have begun utilizing tiny AirTag-compatible trackers that broadcast ...

The presence of H5N1 avian influenza virus, better known as bird flu, among dairy cows in Texas — the second largest producer of dairy cattle — was first confirmed in late March. By then, H5N1 had ...

Children’s eyes may hold the secret to how they learn from videos, and new research suggests artificial intelligence could ...

One winter several years ago, I conducted one of my weekend retreats at a conference center in western Massachusetts. When I arrived, I heard about another retreat being offered there the same weekend ...