Forget superpowers, your brain may already have one. Studies show people can train echolocation and detect objects using nothing but reflected sound.

Michael Pollan explores theories of consciousness in animals, plants and machines, examining the “hard problem” of subjective experience in his new book “A World Appears”.

Finding bats in the attic or under roof tiles is no homeowner's idea of fun. But Florida's endangered bonneted bats have few natural options left. With a dwindling number of large, old trees with ...

Meet the European hedgehog ( Erinaceus europaeus ), small nocturnal insectivores that turn into a spiny ball of death when they feel threatened. Unfortunately, the mammals are rapidly declining.

Two mass strandings involving hundreds of dolphins in Argentina probably happened because the pods were being hunted by orcas ...

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!" ...

I worry that at the time when they should be developing their own voices, they’re being told they don’t need to bother. AI writes for us, reads for us, thinks for us. It replaces our voice with its ...

In 1974, philosopher Thomas Nagel posed a deceptively simple question: “what is it like to be a bat?”. His point wasn’t really about bats. He was offering a provocative challenge about the limits of ...

Biologists attached tiny recording devices that looked like mini backpacks to bats. What they found revealed a surprising ...

Scientists say when bats start circling gardens after sunset, they are responding to something happening in the environment below.

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Proposed changes to the federal Marine Mammal Regulations would increase the distance boats are allowed to approach southern resident killer whales from 200 metres to 1,000 metres.