Throughout my life in the Yakima Valley, I’ve bounced back and forth between living out in the country and settling in town. And no matter where I’ve landed—on quiet backroads or in buzzing ...

The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a sense of quantity, sometimes called "numerosity," appears across a ...

Many animals have a sense of quantity, but they don't count or do math the way humans do. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

The South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) has the largest known genome of the animal kingdom at 91 billion base pairs of DNA. Katherine Seghers, Louisiana State University Scientists have ...

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It’s been more than a year since US President Joe Biden signed a law allowing researchers to test drug candidates on human tissue or computer models before moving to trials in people. This challenged ...

The other night, I spotted a bottle of Captain Morgan atop my fridge that had been sitting up there for years, a shot or so still lingering at the bottom. On a whim, I dumped it into a glass with some ...

An educational game for PC with a zoological theme. The next generation of Nintendo just got way more expensive PS5 storage expansion cards are getting out of control Dr. Rachel Kowert is a research ...

Source: Ratz Attila, Dreamstime, free download. I've long been interested in the numerical competency of nonhuman animals (animals) and whether they can count in their own specific ways. 1 It turns ...

Constant phone calls from desperate pet owners. Hallways full of temporary dog crates. Fewer adoptions. Animal shelters across the U.S. are overwhelmed and overflowing. With more workers heading back ...

To figure out this mind-bogglingly high number, we need to know how many species have ever lived, dig deep into the fossil record and do a lot of math. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dani Di Placido covers film, television, and internet culture. You might have seen the term “Boy Math” thrown around the internet ...