Sadly, not every encounter with a cat, dog, cow, or elephant goes the way we'd like. Perhaps the critter has already had a ...

Living like mammals in a land without them, Aotearoa New Zealand's flightless birds are an evolutionary enigma.

With sand, twigs, silk, leaves and bark, the Arigisegi builds its house. If Àrígiségi had a father, his name would have been Àràmàndà. But Àrígiségi is not human; it is an insect. In the Yoruba ...

Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you ...

A newly discovered group of tarantulas is so bizarre that scientists had to invent a whole new genus—Satyrex—to describe them ...

Dressing up the “Now and Forever” Cats in the accoutrement of the Harlem queer ball scene celebrated in the documentary Paris ...

NASA told the owner to deliver a message to the cat on behalf of the Artemis 2 crew.

Scientists found that the male’s hectocotylus, the specialized arm for mating, is lined with receptors that can sense ...

Over the years, the Siena International Photo Awards has built a remarkable archive through its “Photo of the Day” series, ...

Sugar gliders are small, tree-dwelling omnivores known for their playful nature and remarkable ability to glide through the ...

Self-anointing occurs in many species, and there are multiple reasons for it. Rice-field rats self-anoint with the anal gland ...

Introduced to the island to control the rat population there, the alien ferrets became more rat-like than the rats and took ...