Ethiopia’s Urban Hyenas May Be Cutting Carbon Emissions by More Than 1,000 Tons a Year

Meet the latest African garbage collection team: a clan of hyenas! New research has shown that scavengers, such as the ...

A Biologist Explains Why Female Hyenas Rule Their Clans. Hint: It’s Not Because They’re Stronger

Spotted hyena clans flip the script on mammalian power: here, dominance is inherited, alliances matter most and females rule every level of society.

Courting the competition: Some male fruit flies serenade each other rather than fight

Like the males of many animal species, male Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies, a commonly studied lab animal, are aggressive toward one another and even fight when competing for resources such as ...