Australia’s sleepy lizards know to go when they smell smoke.

Across the animal kingdom, different species seem to have instinctual ways of finding their way through life: Newly hatched sea turtles that know to reach the ocean by moonlight, birds that migrate ...

But the same animals were profoundly impaired when performing learned tasks, revealing that the DLS was essential for the newly-acquired skills. "There was a massive change, like night and day," Kiah ...

For the first time, scientists observed a wild animal treating its own wound with a medicinal plant. A Sumatran orangutan, chewed up liana leaves and applied them to his wound. It healed in five days.