Before Michelle Fournet moved to Alaska on a whim in her early twenties, she’d never seen a whale. She took a job on a whale watching boat and, each day she was out on the water, gazed at the grand ...

Underneath the thick forest canopy on a remote island in the South Pacific, a New Caledonian crow peers from its perch, dark eyes glittering. The bird carefully removes a branch, strips off unwanted ...

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In the summer of 1976, recent high school graduate and aspiring actor Bill Berloni was working as an apprentice at Connecticut’s famed Goodspeed Opera House as it prepared to host the pre-Broadway run ...

Cats have a reputation for being a bit aloof, but if you feel like you and your cat don’t share a close connection, it might simply be a matter of learning to “speak” their language. Don’t ...

Advanced technology has now enabled scientists to understand what animals are saying to each other. Bioacoustics and artificial intelligence are revealing how animals communicate, and may soon allow ...