When you think of herbs, you might picture rosemary, basil, or dill weed, but you can add something a bit bigger than that to your mental herb collection: good ol' bananas.

Sleep is important, but not all animals need the same kind of deep rest as humans. From sleeping standing up to sleeping inside snot bubbles, here are 8 especially strange ways some animals catch their ZZZs.

They’re sticky, they’re stretchy, they’re just plain long—here are seven of the most interesting tongues in the animal kingdom!

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Bones are hard to digest and can be downright dangerous to eat, but some animals have evolved pretty bizarre adaptations to accommodate their crunchy, splintery diets.

How does evolution really work? Actually, not how some of our common evolutionary metaphors would have us believe. For instance, it's species, not individual organisms, that adapt to produce evolution, and genes don't "want" to be passed...

When you think of herbs, you might picture rosemary, basil, or dill weed, but you can add something a bit bigger than that to your mental herb collection: good ol' bananas.

Today we're going to begin our three-part unit on p-values. In this episode we'll talk about Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (or NHST) which is a framework for comparing two sets of information. In NHST we assume that there is no...

Researchers are satellite-tracking reticulated giraffes in northern Kenya, a species found nowhere else in the world. Only about 8,500 live in the wild.

Zookeepers at the San Diego Zoo weigh and measure new giraffe calf Obi.

See what tricks zookeepers employ to keep a giraffe calf focused on his bottle.

Keepers at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are bottle-feeding giraffe calves.

See what tricks zookeepers employ to keep a giraffe calf focused on his bottle.

Why starting his life with a 'fall' is very important.

Getting a glimpse of the newborn giraffe calf understandably brought big crowds.

See what tricks zookeepers employ to keep a giraffe calf focused on his bottle.

Go behind the scenes of the giraffe exhibit at the San Diego Zoo for some facts that will change how you look at these giant, beautiful animals.

This species of giraffe is only found in northern Kenya, so tracking them is important for conservation efforts.

Watch all the creative ways keepers sneak medicine to animals at Utah's Hogle Zoo.

Why starting his life with a 'fall' is very important.

Go behind the scenes of the giraffe exhibit at the San Diego Zoo for some facts that will change how you look at these giant, beautiful animals.

See what tricks zookeepers employ to keep a giraffe calf focused on his bottle.

Meet all the members of the herd.

Follow along with lead mammal keeper Lissa McCaffree as she attempts to bottle-feed giraffe calf Baridi.

The 1-day-old giraffe passed her first health exam with flying colors.