When animals move through 3D spaces, the neat system of grid cell activity they use for navigating on flat surfaces gets more disorderly. That has implications for some ideas about memory and other ...

The natural world is under siege by climate change. Rising temperatures are pushing plants and animals outside their current range. To keep pace with climate change, species will need a path to follow ...

The life-or-death journey made by mule deer during the second-longest big game migration in North America came down to their ability to squeeze through a fence -- a discovery made by scientists using ...

Efforts to create regional genetic databases of threatened animals could help wildlife experts protect them. In a study published this week, scientists at the University of Washington, in Seattle, ...

It wasn’t so long ago that tracking wild animals meant slogging through the forest with a clipboard and binoculars, hoping for a glimpse of an animal—or at least a pile of poo. But in recent years, ...

Young turtles cover a surprisingly large range at their tender age and work from an internal timetable and map. And as researchers from the University of Exeter discovered with the loggerhead named ...

A research team from Yale University and the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a demo of a project called "Map of Life", which is an ambitious Web-based endeavor designed to show the ...