A group of students tried to release cute and seemingly harmless little mammals in Colorado — and the critters turned out to be bolder than they bargained for, video shows. The students from Lamar ...

How do animal behavior researchers feel about the feelings of animals? A new survey helps to answer that question.

A mega study involving over 100 scientists has uncovered some startling findings into how the megafires that tore through ...

Among all the animal and plant groups that we examined, mammals were the most sensitive, showing average declines twice as ...

Using a variety of techniques, the researchers realized that two subspecies of squirrels from Southeast Asia were actually ...

From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other ...

A new study led by Dr. Jack Tseng, published in PeerJ, has shed light on the intricate relationship between tooth wear and ...

This makes the vampire bat a very unusual animal indeed ... an essential amino acid (one that mammals can't synthesize) that ...

Social animals live longer, take additional time to mature, and have more extended reproductive periods than solitary animals, according to research from the University of Oxford. Animals living in ...

Three weeks after the death of another beluga whale at Marineland, the Ontario government is speaking publicly about its ongoing investigation of the park, saying water troubles are under control ...

The following year, it declared that all marine mammals in the park were in distress ... “As soon as you need to start physically intervening to feed the animal, the situation is dire,” said the group ...

New research is shedding light on mysterious sleep mechanisms in an unexpected source: the Australian dragon lizard.