Some animals are capable of cooperating with members of other species. An interdisciplinary team explores the cognitive underpinnings of such cross-species collaborations, opening up a new perspective ...

Scientists may have been dramatically undercounting the number of vertebrate species on Earth. A large analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every recognized species of fish, bird, ...

A new species of fish has been discovered in a well in India: It is tiny, blind and its brain is protected only by skin. A researcher from the Natural History Museum in Bern was involved in the ...