The world of 3D animation has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, thanks to the advent of innovative AI tools that have simplified the process of modeling, rigging, and animating ...

A leopard sprints through a savannah grassland. The video sequence that shows the animal doing this lasts only a few seconds. But it is enough to calculate a three-dimensional, digital, moving image ...

A recent study suggested that the total number of unique species that call Earth home may be as mind-bogglingly high as 1 trillion. Granted, the vast majority of those are microscopic organisms, but ...

Early on in the pandemic, it became clear Covid-19 had made the leap from animals to humans. The exact chain of transmission isn't known, but the science so far suggests bats played a starring role.

“Populating the virtual world with animals used to be a lot of manual work“, says Michael J. Black, director of the Perceiving Systems department at the MPI for Intelligent Systems. Today, animators ...

Have you ever wondered what Superman might see when gazing upon a Mexican bearded lizard with his X-ray vision? Well, you need wonder no more, thanks to a leviathan effort from an international team ...

Mag-nificent fun for the whole family. These 3D puzzles are a fun way to introduce kids to different native Australian animal species while developing concentration and fine motor skills. Made from ...

Today, with adults and kids stuck inside to avoid the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be a great distraction to place a pet tiger, wolf, or panda on your living room couch. When the feature first premiered, ...

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 ...