Safari Park, San Diego Zoo and SeaWorld have not seen any of the animals in their collections infected in the three years ...

Geriatric African penguins don’t have to worry about younger birds bombarding the buckets of fish delivered by trainers at ...

Once dubbed the world's ugliest animal for its soft, lumpy appearance, the blobfish has made a stunning comeback: it was ...

Without being able to get into the heads of animals, it’s hard to say for sure. But instances of pig painters, whale crooners ...

For example, considering how easy it would be for a bird with claws to get a little too curious about a fish sibling and ...

In nature, interactions between species are often framed in terms of survival—those that hunt and those that are hunted. But ...

Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth's surface as powerfully as floods and storms. These animals effectively act as landscape engineers, reorganizing soils and ...

Some philosophers believe that creating art requires intention; for example, a sculptor will mold clay with the intention of having it look like Abraham Lincoln. And nonhuman animals, they’ll argue, ...

In the last ten years, at least 15 species have officially checked out, never to be seen again. It's ironic to think how ...

Residents and visitors often see swallow-tailed kites flashing overhead during the spring months as they hunt just above the ...

State of the Birds Report highlights the urgent need for conservation as North American bird populations continue to fall.

Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ ...