Many aspects of animals that people find beautiful evolved to be attractive to the animals themselves. A new study hints at a common aspect of perception that dates back hundreds of millions of years.

The funny African Grey Parrot has the comedy of a human toddler/angsty teenager all in one compact, feathered frame. This time, he's mocking the way a very sick Mom sounds, and it's the stuff legends ...

March is a great time of year for people across the United States. The snow begins to melt, temperatures rise, and many birds ...

On a small, remote island, south of New Zealand, one of the world’s rarest parrots – the kākāpō - is watching over her young. She’s not alone. Hidden in her nest, a live webcam broadcasts her activity ...

Among the primary concerns surrounding artificial intelligence is its tendency to yield erroneous information when summarizing long documents. These "hallucinations" are problematic not only because ...

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals ...

When the researchers matched recordings to air quality data, they found birds sang the least on the smokiest days.

Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss’s rowdy exotic birds are driving her Las Vegas neighbor crazy with their wild ...

There are chirping sounds outside my office window today, and I bet this visiting bird is doing a countdown to the first day of spring. Now and then, I go to the window to see if I can spot her – and ...

As the temperatures rise in Connecticut, black bears are set to re-emerge just as state officials again wrangle with how to ...

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

A newly described treefrog by the name of Gracixalus weii has exhibited a repertoire which mirrors the bird sounds of China’s Leigongshan Nature Reserve. Recently described in Guizhou Province, China, ...