W hy has this election season featured so many stories about animal cruelty? The 2024 campaign has contained many remarkable ...

Cute features in babies and animals are more than just amusing—they trigger powerful evolutionary responses that help our species’ survival. Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that has become ...

Oct. 15, 2024 — A study in the Cascade Range in Oregon of a tiny, elusive skunk found the animal can cover more ground than deer and is sensitive to climate change, ... Bonobos May Be More ...

India’s diverse landscape of towering mountain ranges, lush tropical jungles, wetlands, grasslands and deserts make it a microcosm of almost every environment on earth. Join us as we discover the ...

Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It's a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new ...

When life seems a little too serious, there's nothing like animal jokes to make you roar (or hoot or howl) with laughter I’ve been a stand-up and improv comic for 30 years, and I know for a fact ...

The recent history of Delhi University is symptomatic of the weakening of democracy in India but in the activism of students, ...

His fascination led him to collect taxonomic specimens, particularly those of animals born with abnormalities like two-headed ...

Alcohol — and animals that love to consume it — is far more common in the natural world than scientists once believed, a study has found. Because ethanol — the kind of alcohol that forms ...

A deep-sea submersible found worms and snails living in cavities below the sea floor — the first time animals have been discovered in such habitats. The creatures may have been pushed into their ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...