Wild black-tailed prairie dogs use alarm calls to warn one another of predators, and some grassland birds are listening in. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

Prairie dogs are chatty creatures. The animals have a variety of calls to alert each other to the presence of predators, each of them distinct based on the nature of the threat. Now, researchers from ...

You probably don’t give it a second thought: hundreds of flights a day taking off and landing with barely a bird in sight. But behind the seamless choreography of modern aviation lies a team of unsung ...