Winter is hard, and for wildlife in Colorado, it's even harder. To survive, many species have developed adaptations over ...

This video explores the remarkable adaptations that allow certain animals to survive in some of the hottest and driest environments on Earth. Scientists highlight how these species evolved specialized ...

From saber-toothed synapsids to global collapse, the forgotten predators of the Permian ruled a world on the brink of ...

Ringtail is Arizona’s state mammal, designated in 1986 to highlight regionally tied symbols. Ringtails are nocturnal, desert-adapted raccoon-like carnivores about the size of a house cat with a ringed ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...

Betty Ford Alpine Gardens invites the community to discover the remarkable survival strategies of Colorado’s mountain wildlife during “Habitats and Adaptations,” a captivating educational program with ...

Animals need to get creative to survive in the wild. While some feature bright “warning colors” to keep predators away, a strategy called aposematism, others have evolved to stay hidden in their ...

A past predator of the seas may have had a secret weapon: noise-cancelling flippers that helped it sneak up on prey. The team then performed computer analyses to simulate how the flipper might have ...

Many black beetle species are nocturnal, meaning they must rely on their senses to navigate the darkness. Much of the time, these insects avoid predators, find mates, and locate food during nighttime ...

The animal kingdom is full of fascinating adaptations, and one of the most intriguing is the ability to sleep with one eye open. While humans drift into deep slumber with both eyes closed, several ...

Large prehistoric marine reptiles known as mosasaurs dominated the oceans until their extinction 66 million years ago.

Mosasaurs were enormous reptiles best known for ruling ancient oceans more than 66 million years ago, but new evidence suggests some also lived in rivers. Scientists reached this conclusion after ...