Sea lion Ronan first made the news in 2013, when researchers revealed that she could bob her head to a beat. Twelve years ...

A new study of Ronan, a sea lion famous for her dancing skills, challenges the idea that only vocal learners can match a ...

Ronan the sea lion can groove to rock and electronica, but the 15-year-old's talent shines most in bobbing to disco hits like ...

Tapping a toe to the beat is something people do unconsciously. Parrots and monkeys have even been known to have quite the ...

Ronan, the only non-human mammal to demonstrate highly precise beat keeping, continues to challenge our understanding of ...

For years, scientists believed that rhythm was a skill exclusively reserved to humans, out of all mammals. But a rescue sea ...

Ronan, a sea lion at UC Santa Cruz, outperforms humans in keeping a beat, challenging long-held beliefs about rhythm ...

A sea lion named Ronan matched or outperformed humans in a rhythm test, showing better consistency and synchronization to ...

Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years. She can groove to rock and electronica. But the 15-year-old California sea lion’s talent shines most in bobbing to disco hits like ...

This is Ronan. She’s a California sea lion, and she probably has better rhythm than you. Scientists earlier showed that Ronan, a resident of the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of ...

Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years. She can groove to rock and electronica. But the 15-year-old California sea lion’s talent shines most in bobbing to disco hits like ...

The results challenge the long-held theory that "only animals who were vocal learners — like humans and parrots — could learn ...