Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

Mites are common in the Antarctic – there are hundreds of species. Some even live in the nasal cavities of penguins. Penguin ...

A wildebeest, a gorilla and a giraffe were among the life-size puppets to begin a 20,000-kilometer (12,400-mile) trek across ...

The discovery shows the cultural interaction between the Maya of Tikal and Teotihuacan's elite between 300 and 500 A.D., ...

Moo-ve over, Moo Deng — here comes Uki, the adorable orphaned walrus. The brave girl, found abandoned along the Arctic Ocean, ...

April 8, 2025 • Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA to breed the animals. Dire wolves recently featured prominently in the HBO series Game of ...

Researchers landed on an uninhabited island known for its archaeological ruins and started looking for snakes, lizards and ...

During her time asleep, the okapi staff were also able to perform a full health exam including skin biopsies, cultures, and ...

While that fashion trend thankfully came to an end, kagus have continued to face threats, with predation by dogs and other introduced animals, as well as habitat loss, all causing numbers to decline.

Metabolism is known to be linked to lifespan in some species, though it remains unclear how this effect is mediated. Here they show that reduced pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) activity lowers ...

Most species of velvet geckos “can rather easily be identified and distinguished by their general appearance,” but some species have more “rather subtle” differences, the ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — A new study maps how specific lactic acid bacteria can enhance both the flavor and nutritional quality of plant-based dairy alternatives. The findings may have wide-reaching ...