Teatime revels in China now include hugs with lion cubs in a four-course afternoon set offered by a restaurant in the ...

Krypto the Superdog may steal the show in the new “Superman” movie, but it’s a dog named Superman who’s stealing the hearts ...

Chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Zambia have been found to have developed the “seemingly pointless” behavior of dangling blades ...

When researcher Jared Towers set up his cameras underwater to observe a pair of killer whales, he saw something strange.

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human ...

Ashley Reckdenwald founded Land of Lovies after the LA wildfires to help restore — or replace — stuffed animals that had been lost or damaged in the disaster. Now, after the floods in Texas, they are ...

Two new studies sequencing proteins from ancient animal teeth have pushed back the oldest studied proteins by millions of years—with one of the papers describing proteins from the tooth of an extinct ...

Orcas were spotted using kelp as a grooming tool on each other, the first known use of tools among cetaceans for something ...

Tiger King” star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle was sentenced on Tuesday to one year and a day in federal prison and fined $55,000 for ...

Proteins from an ancient rhino tooth unearthed in the Canadian Arctic have allowed scientists to look much deeper into the ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as 125,000 years ago, smashed the marrow-rich bones into fragments with stone ...

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized flies and drop them from the sky.