Topic: zoology

Jane Goodall with chimpanzee Nana at the zoo in Magdeburg, Germany, June 2004. (Jens Schlueter/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

Jane Goodall taught us about ourselves

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Wood frog (Getty Images/Auscape/Universal Images Group)

Animals that die and come back to life

Carlyn Zwarenstein
White Sussex chicken among the flowers (Getty Images/daphnusia)

Study finds chickens may blush

Rae Hodge
Banded mongoose group approaching with curiosity (Mungos mungo) (Getty Images/Anup Shah)

Mongoose warfare: Rikki Tikki's revenge

Rae Hodge
Plainfin Midshipman (Getty Images/Joseph Dreimiller)

Inside the brains of "singing" fish

Rae Hodge
Illustration of alien plants on a hospitable foreign planet (Getty Images)

A zoologist imagines alien life

Emily Cataneo - Undark
(Getty/Yann-HUBERT)

Knowing whale culture can save them

Felicia Vachon - The Conversation
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How do fireflies glow and why

Clyde Sorenson - The Conversation
(Getty/Aunt_Spray)

Male woolly mammoths were rebels

Keith A. Spencer
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Dan Nosowitz - Popular Science