Cat Behavior Demystified (almost). Think you understand your cat? Global Animal offers several explanations for common but still bizarre cat behaviors and antics. For example, if you’ve wondered why your cat insists ...

Madagascar Finds a Missing Dinosaur. An absence of dinosaur fossils from a period between 70 million and 165 million years ago formed an disconcerting gap for paleontologists who have searched for dinosaur remains in ...

Dinosaurs Sat on their Hatching Eggs Like Birds. New evidence might help settle a scientific argument over whether dinosaurs sat on their eggs like birds, or took a more reptilian approach and left them in the ground ...

Basketball Player’s Long Reach Saved Dolphin’s Life. Clifford Ray, a former basketball player for the Golden State Warriors, once used his exceptionally long reach to save a dolphin. It was in 1978 that a Marine ...

Want to Lose Weight? Cultivate the Right Bacteria. It is becoming more obvious to the medical community that the billions of bacteria that line our intestines are also determined in part by genetics. By luck of the draw, ...

The Australian Lazarus Project. A species of Australian frog known as a “gastric-brooding frog” had a strange method of bearing its offspring. It swallowed its fertilized eggs, hatched them in its stomach, and finally ...

Flowers Use Caffeine to Attract Bees. Of course, a flower is optimized to attract bees for pollination, but scientists recently discovered that in some flowering plants it is the caffeine in the nectar that seals the ...

The War of the Ants. Mostly unseen by human observers, a global war is taking place beneath our feet. Invasive colonies of Argentine ants have spread to every continent except Antarctica. They have overwhelmed local ...