Many animals show signs of high intelligence, including strong memory, self-awareness and communication skills.

One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. But what happens when these cute animals become, well, less cute?

There are animals you see so often they become part of the scenery. It is impossible to make a blanket statement about which ...

Even the best clothing camouflage patterns don’t match Mother Nature’s ability to conceal the birds and mammals that thrive ...

Creator Gary Larson has used all kinds of animals to make fans laugh in the usually hilarious one-panel comics, with quite a ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

An endangered baby animal that looks like a fuzzy “walking watermelon” was born at a Washington zoo. The white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf was born Feb. 2 at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

Flying and marine animals are relatively free to follow these shifting niches. Birds and butterflies are two examples. New species arrive regularly in the UK with the warming climate and are generally ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...

It's been nearly four months since Joshua Crow Shoe, Rylan Weasel Bear, Owen Stump and Kieven Weasel Bear hiked through a remote area of Banff National Park to look for bison, but what they felt on ...

Cryptids are animals that some people claim are for real but rarely have tangible evidence to prove it. Humans are gullible ...