But what about the rest of the animal kingdom–how do non-human animals understand and respond to death? The answer depends on species, individual, and circumstance. “There’s a wide variety ...

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 ...

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Lowcountry animal shelters are offering free adoptions for all animals as they attempt to solve an overcrowding crisis that is plaguing several locations. From playful ...

This past spring, Harvard University evolutionary biologist Joanna Wolfe, Ph.D., was in Okinawa, Japan, gathering information for her research on carcinization, or the study of how animals take on ...

As behavioral ecologists, we are interested in how adverse experiences early in life can affect animals' behavior, including the kinds of decisions they make and the way they interact with the ...

Wild animals also experience adversity. Although their negative experiences are easy to dismiss as part of life in the wild, they still have lifelong repercussions – just like traumatic events ...

Merge a classic multiplayer brawler with furry pals, physics-based chaos, and a slew of battle arenas and you get Party Animals, a cuddly take on the classic formula where you duke it out against ...

The third-largest outbreak in history of the deadly Marburg virus was sparked by a single jump of the pathogen from an animal to humans, preliminary genomic evidence shows. The outbreak began last ...

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 ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products. Many of these experiments cause pain to the animals involved or reduce their quality of life ...

You may have read in our recent news article that the National Zoo in Washington, DC, recently welcomed two new giant pandas ...

You can find out which zodiac animal you are by using the year that you were born! Click the button above to get a free printable wall chart for the Chinese zodiac animals. Use the chart to find ...