All over Australia, it is believed by many of the First Nations community that the stars and planets were once men, women and ...

From giant anacondas to Snoop Dogg saving a dog sanctuary, the internet has suffered a deluge of fake animal content.

Plus, an update on a recent column about a diabetic child's need for a service dog that can detect dangerous high and low ...

Milana Anderson's new book got me thinking unexpectedly about how fairy tales not only can help readers ​learn about animal sentience but also lead to new scientific research.

When the first humans reached Australia 60,000 years ago, they walked into a land ruled by giant kangaroos, 10-meter snakes, hippo-sized wombats, and deadly predators like the marsupial lion. Cut off ...

Neighbors of a suburban New Castle townhome community had already been in a five-year, bitter legal feud over one resident's backyard oasis-turned-animal sanctuary when animal welfare officers ...

YALE — It’s hard to remember exactly when things got out of hand. But somewhere along the way, everything changed. It began only because Jacklin Kinzer wanted to keep in touch with her grandkids, ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species, that evolution also involved a return trip.

With dexterous childlike hands and cheeky “masks,” raccoons are North America’s ubiquitous backyard bandits. The critters are so comfortable in human environments, in fact, that a new study finds that ...

Animal-rights groups have long been at odds with the U.S. government, which subsidizes meat and dairy production and spends billions of dollars on animal research every year. But in some ways, they’ve ...

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved similar genetic solutions to survive on land, according to a new study ...