Many of us have experienced fear in the past and present and will confront it in the future. As individuals, we must scrutinize the root cause of such distress and take charge of the remedy.

Think about the last time you saw a spider scurrying across your floor or a snake slithering through the grass. Your heart ...

In the African savanna, lions are at the top of the food chain. Hunting in groups with their sharp claws and excellent vision, lions are considered the top land predator. Both herbivores and ...

Q: Can animals really smell fear?A: This one is a question that kind of hinges on the verb you used – smell. Fear is obviously an emotion, not a scent, however, some of the physical reactions that ...

Animal Planet's "My Extreme Animal Phobia" examines people's fears of critters. Nov. 17, 2011— -- Does the thought of anything creepy crawly give you the heebie jeebies? Worms, snakes, spiders -- ...

It has long been debated whether animals can smell fear in humans. Unfortunately, answering this age-old question isn't as simple as pulling Fluffy or Fido aside and asking them what they're sensing.

Every few years, snowshoe hare numbers in the Canadian Yukon climb to a peak. As hare populations increase, so do those of their predators: lynx and coyotes. Then the hare population plummets, and ...

While sifting through data from an echosounder deployed off the coast of central California in 2010, master’s student Sam Urmy noticed what looked like acoustic interference. Although most of the data ...