People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death in nature is often not positive. The burn scar left by wildfire on a ...

Philosopher Susana Monsó's book Playing Possum, newly translated into English next month, makes the strong case that many animals big and small understand the concept of death. Reading time 8 minutes ...

A new study has revealed what animals do after they have feigned death in order to avoid being killed by a predator and what the context of this behavior is. A new study led by scientists from the ...

Scientists have discovered that a protein linked to cell death is secretly driving the aging of blood stem cells in a completely different way. Instead of killing the cells, it damages their ...