A second earthquake in February 2025 did more damage. "We just knew that there weren't very many left," Death Valley's spokesperson ... of the species, to the animal's natural home.

Thursday’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Humboldt County was felt across the Bay Area and all the way to the Nevada-California border, where it also rattled the remote cave habitat of one of the rarest ...

What do animals know about death? It's a question Charles Darwin himself pondered. "Who can say what cows feel, when they surround and stare intently on a dying or dead companion?" the biologist ...

The ‘world’s loneliest dolphin’ has died alone in an abandoned theme park. Heart shattering. Honey, spent the last two years ...

Her book, Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death, was first published in Spanish in 2021 but has now received an update and a revised English translation that will be out later next month.

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It's a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants ...

Source: Gleive Marcio Rodrigues de Souza/Pexels. I've long been interested in what nonhuman animals (animals) know and feel about death and dying including if they know when others are dying.

But what about the rest of the animal kingdom–how do non-human animals understand and respond to death? The answer depends on species, individual, and circumstance. “There’s a wide variety ...