Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in ...

Wildlife documentaries like the BBC's recent series, Planet Earth III, are renowned for offering breathtaking images of animals in their natural habitats. You'd be forgiven for thinking these shows ...

Audio engineers share their silliest sound stand-ins and the surprising challenges of using real animal sounds in today's games. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

You can add marmoset monkeys to the list of species that use “names.” But whether animals have anything more to say remains unknown. Do animals have names? According to the poet T.S. Eliot, cats have ...

Ambience (sic) is a popular sleep sound app for Android. It features a clean, simple UI along with a variety of calming sounds. They include things like rain, waves, crickets, and even some music. It ...

Scientists are using new technology to help endangered animals by listening to their sounds. Scientists are using new technology to help endangered animals by listening to their sounds. The research, ...

Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names. That's according to a provocative new study in the journal Nature Ecology & ...

A few weeks ago, I received a copy of the University of British Columbia's Dr. Karen Bakker's book The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technologies Are Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and ...

The animal kingdom is full of fascinating creatures, and even a single letter can reveal a surprising variety of wildlife.

Animals react to sounds being made by plants, new research suggests, opening up the possibility that an invisible ecosystem might exist between them. In the first ever such evidence, a team at Tel ...

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