What is the 'most Canadian' animal? Spoiler: it's not the beaver, or the moose. A new study ranks species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the ...

What is the “most Canadian” animal? Spoiler: it’s not the beaver, or the moose. Published today in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist, the study from a team of Simon Fraser University ...

Cooperative hunting, resource sharing, and using the same signals to communicate the same information -- these are all examples of cultural sharing that have been observed between distinct animal ...

Cooperative hunting, resource sharing, and using the same signals to communicate the same information—these are all examples of cultural sharing that have been observed between distinct animal species ...

An international team of researchers have published a new review in Animal Behavior revealing how communication enables cooperation between different animal species. The review, titled "The ecology ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The spiny softshell turtle has the most evolutionary distinctiveness out of all of the animals known to live in Canada, according ...

A large international team of scientists sequenced the genomes of 151 Portuguese men o’ war from across their range throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans (Figure 1b) and discovered these ...

In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an underlying ...

Of the 8.7 million species on Earth, why are human beings the only one that paints self-portraits, walks on the Moon and worships gods? For decades, many scholars have argued that the difference stems ...

What is the first thing that comes to mind when I say “Canadian animal”? At a guess, maybe it’s big and brown with huge antlers. Or maybe it’s a big aquatic rodent with powerful front teeth. I find it ...