Cognition can be defined as the brain's ability to build mental models of the world. Such capacity appears to be a crucial ingredient for the emergence of consciousness.

Two years ago, the UK government gave roughly $15 million to its own conservation organ called Natural England for the ...

David Norman reviews The Physics of Birds and Birding: the Sounds, Colors and Movements of Birds, and Our Tools for Watching Them by Michael Hurben ...

In my post on large language models (LLMs) last week, I argued that the most important question about LLMs is not the outcome of a race with China or when AI will reach human-level intelligence, but ...

Dinosaurs are among the most researched prehistoric animals, yet most people carry outdated ideas about them. Films, old ...

Wildlife watchers across North America have shared images of rabbits with horn-like spikes and squirrels with wart-like ...

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Nature can be equal parts majestic, heartwarming, and terrifying. The winning entries of the 2025 BMC Ecology and Evolution ...

Hooked on wildlife watching Patrick Brejcha couldn’t believe his eyes when he checked his trail camera: a bald eagle, wild turkey and crow were side by side, eating from the same food source inches ...

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Understanding bees’ capabilities is, for Muth, a part of a fully-lived experience. “One of the joys of being human is being ...

Explore the artists of the bird world, made into their own works of art. "I am showing quilts. The originals I painted on silk, very elaborate quilts with the theme of bowerbirds," Judith Roderick ...