A red knot is a tiny shorebird that makes an epic 9000-mile journey all the way from the arctic to the tip of southern Chile and back. Biologists and nature enthusiasts congregate at various points ...

Is it possible to count objects you can't see? If you've ever received a boxed gift, or a mysterious package from Amazon, you might have tried to lightly shake the box to try to guess its contents.

This year, NMNH director Kirk Johnson helped spearhead an effort to add up the collections of the world’s largest museums Jack Tamisiea A small fraction of the more than 50 million specimens housed in ...

Dogs may be deeper thinkers than originally thought, with a new study revealing that man’s best friend is capable of counting. A new study conducted by Emory University and published in Biology ...

Parents typically start teaching their children to count at an early age: one fish two fish, three little pigs, five little monkeys, and so on. Research has shown that kids don’t fully understand the ...

Helena Osana received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for this research. Jairo A. Navarrete-Ulloa receives funding from the National Agency for Research and ...