Seasonality shapes much of life on Earth. Most species, including humans, have synchronized their own rhythms with those of ...

Before giant waves slammed into Sri Lanka and India coastlines ten days ago, wild and domestic animals seemed to know what was about to happen and fled to safety. According to eyewitness accounts ...

A lucky group got to witness one of the rare moments the “sea comes alive” off the California coast, and footage shows the ...

The cave’s name, Natural Trap, is literal: Over the past 150,000 years, countless animals have fallen into it. When approached from the relatively flat plain to the east, the pit appears ...

In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random collection of noises but my rhythmic analyses reveal a different story.

Charles Darwin believed that all creatures perceived and enjoyed musical cadences, and that rhythm was likely common to all animals, but that its expression depended on how complex they were. But as ...

Drumming can have different individual and regional styles but typically consists of non-random timing: hits are evenly spaced, aligning to a set rhythm. Eleuteri and Hobaiter’s previous ...

The study of animal musicality goes back at least to Charles Darwin. He noted that rhythm is everywhere in the biological world, leading naturally, he thought, to the rise of music. Scientific ...

In a time increasingly shaped by global interconnectedness and cultural hybridity, Gary Nader Art Centre presents “Visual Rhythms: A Global Tapestry of Contemporary and Modern Art,” an ...

"So the alternation of short and long rhythms might be a way to say different things and to mark out individuals more clearly.” Even though the chimps drum in rhythm, the scientists were careful ...

One of the most diverse animal groups, arthropods are believed to account for more than 80% of living animal species, said lead study author Dr. Joe Moysiuk, curator of paleontology and geology at ...

It's time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I'm joined here in studio by the show's two hosts, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. Hi, y'all. EMILY KWONG, BYLINE ...