Nature is a masterful designer, constantly shaping organisms to adapt and thrive in their environments. The animal kingdom is brimming with creatures sporting bizarre and fascinating adaptations.

Dromedary camel in outback Australia, near Silverton, NSW. Image via Jjron, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons Are you ...

Life thrives in the extremes of the Sahara Desert and Alaska as nature and humans adapt to intense heat and freezing cold ...

Desert Living Dinosaurs Were as Good as Owls, Had Great Night Vision and Hearing Ability A study led by University of Oxford ...

Australia's vast, arid landscapes may seem inhospitable at first glance, but they are home to a remarkable array of mammals ...

A game-changer for animal welfare? Can artificial intelligence help us understand what animals feel? A pioneering study suggests the answer is yes.

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.

Death Valley is one of the harshest environments on Earth, yet animals continue to thrive in its extreme heat. How do they ...

The Paris Agreement in 2015 introduced the concept of a Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), a parallel to the global mitigation goal aimed at limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. Unlike mitigation, ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism ...

While scientists largely reject doomsday scenarios often propagated by religions, various scientific researches have ...

Learn More Desert dog breeds have developed unique adaptations to thrive in harsh, arid environments ... Each desert breed offers a glimpse into the adaptability of animals to survive the most ...