In polar bears, dolphins, baboons and more, molecular signatures of aging are changing how conservationists assess population ...

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Wild chimpanzees show reduced participation and performance in their tool-use behaviours as they experience old age, according to long-term video observations. The study, published today in eLife, ...

The world's oldest known wild bird is hatching a plan to continue her legacy. Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, just laid her first egg in four years in Hawaii, according to U.S. Wildlife ...

New fossil research shows that humans have reshaped animal communities as extensively as the great extinctions of the Ice Age ...