Some animals actively use trickery to catch prey or escape being caught by predators and this can be very sophisticated.

Aggressive or Peckhamian mimicry, named after arachnologist Elizabeth G. Peckham, is the classic ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’, ...

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For millions of fans, these powers belong to the world of Pokémon, but nature has been harnessing many of them long before ...

Nature, in all its glory, is a gold mine of peculiar and fascinating phenomena. From animals with superpowers to plants with ...

Dogs Know Their People ​Dogs are arguably the most iconic example of animals that can identify individual humans, but their [ ...

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a new squid species. This squid buries itself in the seafloor. It waves its tentacles like plants. This is a new form of aggressive mimicry. The squid uses this to ...

A presumed example of protective mimicry between the yellow goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus (Mullidae) and the smallmouth grunt, Haemulon chrysargyreum (Haemulidae) is described from Fernando de ...

The Trump administration is curbing animal experiments in response to shifts in public opinion, technological advances, years of animal rights advocacy and the work of a conservative activist. By ...